On 09/14/05 03:37, Adam Egger wrote:
Hi,
I didn't want to spam mythtv's trac. I just have a question regarding
"Ticket #331: record two transmissions which are one behind another on
the same chanel".
It's important that you understand the difference between (and purpose
of) global pre-/post-roll and per-recording start-early/end-late
settings. No one explains it better than Bruce Markey:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/56603#56603
(Please read the whole post--if you base decisions only on the
information I'm providing below, you'll probably still have problems
setting your schedules appropriately because I'm not giving the whole
story; Bruce is.)
I've set the global record earlier setting to 120 seconds (2 minutes)
and record late to 300 seconds (5 minutes) (why does this setting take
seconds? Everywhere else minutes are used for all start earlier/late
settings).
Because of the purpose of global pre-/post-roll--to get the tuner card
started/stopped, which doesn't (usually?) require more than a few seconds.
Now I'd like to set the end time of one scheduled recording to 0
minutes. Does the per schedule setting work additionally to the global
one? Do I have to provide -5 minutes for this recording now
(300seconds - 5minutes = 0 minutes).
Better idea would be to set your global pre-roll appropriately. Your
approach would work (plus/minus a few seconds), but is a fragile solution...
Btw, will the global setting also be overridden when the tuner is
going to switch to another channel when there are scheduled
block-on-block recodings on two *different* channels?
Yes, because the tuner is already started, so it doesn't need any
"start-up time."
Mike
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