[mythtv] More scheduling scheduler

[Max Barry]

Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:26:26 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/26/2006 07:09 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>>> I do wonder what all these issues are that people are likely to assume
>>> will be resolved with softpadding. The only problem I can see it solves
>>> is for channels with unreliable timing, or that sometimes run a couple
>>> of minutes late, and for this it works very well.
>>
>> Read through all the posts on the -users list where people say, "my
>> global padding isn't being applied for back-to-back shows" to see.
> 
> Exactly!
> 
> And that is precisely what soft padding fixes very nicely. There's lots
> of people on the users list that already expect pre/post roll to do just
> this. It is for exactly this reason I run the softpadding myself. 

Agreed: pre/postroll is soft padding, and can be usefully deployed
against unreliable guide data. But many users find its default behavior
sub-optimal -- in particular, the way it gets dropped for back-to-back
shows while another tuner sits idle.

Max.