[mythtv-users] Maximum recording length?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 01 March 2004 02:47, Niklas Brunlid wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:42:59 +0100, Niklas Brunlid <nbr at ticalc.org> 
wrote:
> > I was about to set a recording for the Oscars (which for some
> > strange reason airs on a sunday) which including the "red carpet"
> > bit is 6+ hours,
> > but mythfrontend won't let me set a recording of more than 300
> > minutes. Is
> > there a technical reason for that limit or is it just one of those
> > "big enough" numbers? :)
>
> OK, since it aired on one of the channels that my tv grabber contains
> I scheduled it from the program listings... however, as I discovered
> this morning, it was set to record from 02:30 to 15:40. This was
> probably because the Oscars was the last program for the day/night
> and mythtv sets the ending time to the start of the next program -
> correct?
>
> Which leads me to the question: is it possible to edit the start and
> end times of a scheduled recording? Without using mysql directly? And
> without mythWeb (which I will install when I have the time to make it
> reasonably secure)?
>
> / Niklas

 In the "Advanced Recording" screen, "Start early" and "End late" will 
change the actual start/end times of a scheduled recording.  Negative 
values are perfectly acceptable (allowing you to 'start late' or 'end 
early').

-JAC