[mythtv-users] [PATCH] Added Recording "Under" Time to enable tostart recordings early

[Tako Schotanus]

How about an extra option like this:

Consider Over Time                                as important
               Under Time
                Both Over and Under Time
                Neither Over nor Under Time

Although I'm not much of a fan of adding more and more options (I like 
to KISS) I can appreciate the need.

I had been thinking of list of scheduled recordings which you could 
edit. So let's say you selected a program from the guide, you could 
still go into that list and edit whatever you wanted about the program, 
including the start and end time. Those times being the "official" times 
it would never get cut short. The problem is that I don't know if this 
will work, because I can imagine that MythTV does (or could) at times 
check if the times in the progam guide have changed so manually editing 
the times would just reset them the next time it gets compared against 
the program guide.

Up to know I jsut fired up mysql and edited the times manually but it 
never worked for some reason (thereby missing the last epidode of my 
girlfriend's favorite soap, oops =)

So what sayeth ye, sir Isaac? Any ideas?

Joseph H. Fry wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-users-
>>bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
>>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:21 PM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [PATCH] Added Recording "Under" Time to
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>enable
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>>tostart recordings early
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>>On Friday 27 June 2003 10:46 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote:
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>>>So now we need to have it detect this conflict and either finish the
>>>recording show or end recording early... maybe a "under time
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>priority"
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>>>option.  Set to low, it is overridden by current recordings, high,
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>it
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>>>overrides.
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>>I don't see why you'd ever want to cut a recording short, especially
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>if
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>>you're
>>starting even a minute early.  It should be just like the over-record
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>>time.
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>>Basically, all that patch needs is to check if the recorder object is
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>busy
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>>recording before applying the pre-record offset, and then it should
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>work
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>>properly.
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>>Isaac
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>What about situations where users experience shows starting early more
>often than running until their allotted end time.
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>For example, where I live I rarely see shows that run past their
>scheduled end time, but I frequently see them start early. (my clocks
>are synced to world time daily)  I think if given the choice, I would
>rather record the beginning of the show in my recordings, rather than
>the commercials at the end of the previous one.
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>Maybe the solution is a "show offset" as a positive or negative value...
>rarely will a 1/2 hour show run more than 30 minutes... but some places
>they start a minute early, some a minute late... how about just a value
>to define how different your clocks are than the broadcasters.
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>So if I set my offset to -1 minute, than all my scheduled times (start
>and end) are reduced by 1 minute, if I set it to +1 they are increased
>by 1 minute... I think you can see what I mean.  Therefore there is no
>overlap of recordings.
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>Hell, this offset could even be set on a per channel basis (of course
>this will cause conflicts).
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>Joe
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