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

Brad Templeton brad+myth at templetons.com
Thu Jul 27 22:50:06 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:47:13PM -0400, Daniel Walton wrote:
> 
> >     c) While you're at it, one thing I've always wanted is for play
> >        to start at the actual start time of a show when I add buffering
> >        to the start of a program.  Ie. if I have recording start 30
> >        seconds early (which I do on all shows) I want playback to begin
> >        30 seconds into the file, at the real start time, and I can
> >        rewind if I want to see the earlier stuff.  Of course, today,
> >        I just hit 30 second skip every time.
> 
> It should be doable to write a script that runs after each recording that sets a
> bookmark at the real start time.  Myth will start playing from the bookmark by
> default so this would do what you are looking for.
> 
> Daniel

Yeah, that was my first intuition, though to be "clean" this is not
a bookmark -- ie. the UI should not display that you set a boomark etc.
It's what to do when there's no bookmark -- start at the time the
program was scheduled to start.   Though I may eventually code it up
the simple way.


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