Hi All, I am interested in trying this patch with current SVN.
Have there been any changes since 7354 that will cause my problems? cheers dave On 10/11/05, Max Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Engel wrote: > > Would the proponents of adding soft padding to the scheduler please > > try this patch and provide feedback. > > It works great. That is, it works like the current soft buffer, but also: > (a) bumps showings to an idle tuner if necessary to capture the buffer; and > (b) displays in "Upcoming Recordings" exactly when MythTV will be recording. > > Point (a) addresses the niggling issue that started this whole > discussion, and means we would no longer have tuners sitting idle while > the soft buffer gets unexpectedly dumped. That's very good. > > Point (b) I'm ambivalent about. From a technical point of view it makes > sense, but as a user I'm not that interested in exactly which minute > MythTV will be recording. I just want to know roughly when to expect my > programs, and whether there are any conflicts. This might make it > slightly harder to resolve conflicts because it's not immediately > obvious which bits of the recording are causing the conflict and which > are soft buffers that would be dropped anyway. (To work it out, you need > to know the scheduled times, the length of any manual hard buffers, the > length of the soft buffer, and then you have to do some arithmetic.) > That is, it can look like there's a (say) 5-minute overlap, and that > therefore you need to trim this much from a recording, when there's > really a 1-minute overlap plus a 4-minute soft buffer. > > It would also be helpful if you could see in "Upcoming Recordings" when > MythTV was planning to dump the soft buffer. Maybe the programs could be > displayed in a different color, or maybe there could be a symbol, or > maybe it should just list the scheduled time and the buffer time > separately. Such advance warning could be very handy. > > Since there's no associated UI, I'm not sure if it's planned that users > will be able to specify whether they want MythTV to use idle tuners > and/or switch to earlier/later showings in order to preserve the soft > buffers. Personally, I'd always take the buffers, but I know quite a few > people have said they want different options. > > Hope this feedback helps. > > Max. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
