On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 02:44:53PM +1000, Max Barry wrote: > David Engel wrote: > >How often do those 3 minutes actually matter? I use 5 seconds for > >pre-roll and 15 seconds for post-roll and has always been enough for > >my needs. If 30 seconds is too small, suggest another value. > > It seems odd that you'd deliberately try to implement a ceiling value > for overrecord that's high enough to let Isaac catch the end of shows > that drift late, but low enough to prevent users faced with more > temporally-challenged TV networks from doing the same.
Maybe the fact that MythTV is Isaac's project might have something to do with it! If I piss him off, he could revoke my commit privileges. :) Seriously, if you read the other posts and between the lines, you'd see that Isaac is content with the status quo. IOW, he's not the one asking for the overrecord to affect the scheduler. > I'm also confused about why my patch should be denied on the basis that > it makes overrecord more effective at a purpose for which it was not > intended (i.e. to catch shows that unexpectedly drift late), As far as I'm concerned, the whole issue is still open and nothing has been denied yet. However, Bruce raised a concern that the scheduler should reflect its true intentions in the upcoming schedule instead of leaving the user to guess when overrecord will and will not be applied. I agreed with that concern, and decided exploring other options was warranted. I posted a patch last night to expore one of those options. It's a proof of concept patch to add soft scheduling. I hadn't intended to do this since I really wanted the bellyachers to try hard offsets and provide hard evidence (pun intended) that it caused a real problem rather than a hypothetical one. However, I had a brain fart yesterday that looked promising enough to let others try. > when just a > few weeks earlier this changeset was committed: > > http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6606 > > This lets users use overrecord to catch more of sports events that tend > to drift late. Why is it okay to (ab)use overrecord to catch the end of > sports events, but not shows in other categories? Personally, I don't care for that change. IMO, it's too specialized and limited and I would have never committed it. However, one of the other contributors did commit it. Since it didn't directly affect the scheduler, I wasn't going to get into a pissing contest over it unless I had something better to offer. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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