On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:48:37PM -0500, David Engel wrote: > I know this is going to piss off some people, but here is what I now > intend to do. > > 1. Table any changes which add soft scheduling for the time being. > > 2. Add default start-early and end-late settings for new recording > rules. Existing rules will have to be edited if wanted. > > 3. Limit the existing pre-roll and post-roll settings to 30 seconds > maximum. > > 4. After 3 or 4 weeks, re-open this discussion. Hopefully by then, > the big soft scheduling proponents will have real world experience > with the above changes and how much of a problem there still is.
Is #3 particularly useful/necessary? Australian television stations are appalling for running late. One station in particular routinely runs 15-20 minutes late due to live reality television programs (even though they know this always happen and could schedule for it). I'm abusing post-roll by setting it to 20 minutes. This works as poor man's soft scheduling so far. In my case I could put a hard 20 minutes on every program as I have three tuners and would probably never get a conflict. Currently my third tuner only does about 1 hour a week. However, most Australian users would not (we only have 5 OTA stations so 3 tuners is excessive); hard extra time would cause conflicts, while post-roll allows for best effort. Programs are rarely repeated here so a conflict is a missed program. Of course I'm really arguing for the soft scheduler, which would be great for Australians. (I've even glanced at the scheduler code in the past but found it a bit daunting to start working on this though.) However I think your interim solution would actually make things worse. Regards, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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