Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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
Australia is not the only country with abominal schedule info. The
commercial broadcasters in the Netherlands also have a tendency to give
schedule info which is close to "we intent this, what we do is something
else".
I started with abusing the pre-roll / post-roll. Results were most
certainly not to my liking:
- i never could know when the recording would be recorded
- i had several very surprising results (cut endings, which i consider
to be worse than lost recording)
In the end i have taken care to have extra tuner capacity, and at the
moment i consistently add at least 10 min to every recording when
scheduling this recording.
1 recording schedule at the moment has 1 hour extra time, as the
behaviour on that Belgium channel is abominal at the moment. And missing
the end of a thriller like series is really irritating.
Option 2 would ease my life considerably.
Face up to it. Soft scheduling will still result in unexpected
behaviour. Spend 50bucks to get an extra tuner and spare yourself the
disappointment.
Regards,
Rudy
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