[mythtv] [PATCH] Extend recording time during recording

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Oct 14 04:09:25 UTC 2004


On Friday 24 September 2004 11:27 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> This patch adds a feature requested from the user list which is
> apparently also a TiVo feature.  While watching a recording in progress,
> you can select a new OSD menu item to Extend the recording by 15, 30,
> 45, or 60 minutes beyond the current end time.  Common usage is for
> sporting events that will obviously go long while you are watching to
> extend the end time to handle it.

Is this the best method to handle extending recording?  It's just increasing 
the (optional) over-record value, which could get overridden if there was 
another recording coming up..  Ideally, I think that the scheduler would have 
to get involved, to deal with that properly.

Isaac


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