[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this (overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?

[Steve Hodge]

On 7/28/06, Janne Grunau <janne-mythtvusers at grunau.be> wrote:
> If I record two or more movies back-to-back I wouldn't want to skip over
> all others if I want only see the last one. The system should work for
> a larger number of overlapping recordings.

Would this be a real issue? I've never noticed any delay skipping any
distance though I've probably skipped no more than 2 hours at a time.

> You can circumvent parental control with this since all recordings are
> accessible through the others. Not that it bothers me.

Nor me. Could be difficult to fix this flaw though.

> It's especially bad since the AutoExpirer would expire recordings that
> doesn't need to be deleted since we gain no additional space. So hard
> links won't work and and mythtv has to know if two recordings share the
> same file. Space calculations in the current form might also not work
> since MythTV adds the sizes of all recordings.

Doesn't the AutoExpirer have to check how much space has been
reclaimed after deleting anyway? Surely it can't assume that there is
no other process using diskspace at the same time.

> So this solution is not only more complex than a clean solution but it
> has a security hole, is not scaleable (think of ten back-to-back
> recordings and you want only to keep one of them) and has a bad
> usability.

I think you're overstating your case, but I do agree that the
record-to-two-files implementation would be better. Provided it's not
significantly more difficult to implement. Are all types of recorders
definitely going to be able to record to two files simultaneously?

> I hope nobody will start to implement this solution.

That's silly. Surely the best outcome would be if both implementations
were developed so that the best implementation can be chosen.

> I will start implementing a clean solution soon (after 0.20 or if it
> gets cooler in Berlin, whatever comes first).

Thanks, I'm looking forward to having this functionality.

Cheers,
Steve