[mythtv] Re: Re: Ticket #255: Improved scheduling of consecutive programs with pre-roll/overrecord

[Michael T. Dean]

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.
>  
>
I love this plan, but would like to make one suggestion.  Can we change 
the help text associated with pre-/post-roll to include the text, "up to 
30 seconds," so we don't get a slew of, "Global start early/end late 
won't let me record more than 30 seconds extra!" posts?  If you don't 
want the specific value in there (for maintainability), we could say "a 
few seconds" or "several seconds" or "a short time" or something.

My recommended help text (with changes "underlined"):

For RecordPreRoll:
This global setting allows the recorder to start _up to 30 seconds_ 
before the scheduled start time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is 
ignored when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in between.

For RecordOverTime:
This global setting allows the recorder to record _up to 30 seconds_ 
beyond the scheduled end time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is 
ignored when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in between.

Hmmm.  Now that I think about it, this ingenious plan makes an 
assumption that may not hold up--that people will actually read the help 
text...  ;)  Well, at least we could quote the help text in the replies.

Thanks,
Mike