[mythtv-users] Network execs added 1 minute to program length

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Oct 4 00:49:12 UTC 2007


On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:34:29AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Taine Gilliam wrote:
> 
> > It may not be what I want but it would be what I asked for.
> 
> Not me.  If I schedule something like that, what I want is for Myth  
> to rearrange things so it can get all of both shows.  Half a show is  
> usually useless to me.
> 
> Maybe the difference is, I rarely think about time slots when I set  
> up recordings.  I just think of it as asking Myth to get me shows X,  
> Y, and Z.  I leave the details about what times it should record them  
> at to the software, because I'm lazy that way. ;)
> 
> >
> > David Brodbeck wrote:
> >> On Oct 2, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Taine Gilliam wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd have thought the schedule set for 9:00-10:00 would start
> >>> immediately
> >>> once the schedule at 8:00-9:01 was complete. Unless the later  
> >>> schedule
> >>> had a higher priority in which case the 8:00-9:01 should be  
> >>> stopped at
> >>> 9:00 to begin the second recording. Even my really cheap VCR can
> >>> handle
> >>> this one.
> >>
> >> MythTV assumes you want the whole show, not part of it.  So if it
> >> sees overlap, it's going to try to reschedule the later recording for
> >> another time.  If it can't, you'll get a conflict.

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Look!

Middle-posting!!

Cheers,
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