[mythtv-users] best practices for recording scheduling
George Mari
george_mythusers at mari1938.org
Thu Oct 25 00:21:09 UTC 2007
Mark A. O'Neil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that recordings, mostly on the CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX etc
> have either been truncating the last few minutes - with the
> frustrating result of missing the ending of the show...It inhales
> greatly when the family misses the end of a 'Heros' episode!
>
> I am guessing that this is due to erratic (actual 'real' times vs the
> guide) scheduling on the part of the networks in question.
>
> Short of recording +/-5 minutes and the like is there another tactic?
> The problem I have with simply recording longer is that often this
> will result in overlap of recording on my three tuners, maintenance
> of network specific recording configurations, etc, thus creating
> another set of problems....
>
> I do use MythWeb for setting up recording schedules - could this be
> the problem (it has not in the past eg. v 0.19 - currently 0.20.x on
> Ubuntu)?
>
> Perhaps I am missing something trivial in my configuration - using
> defaults for most everything that I can think of while here at work.
>
>
You didn't mention whether you have the NTP daemon setup on your
backend? Accurate timekeeping is the first thing to make sure you have.
Someone else responded with a thread on how to deal with this from a
scheduling strategy, which is also relevant.
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