[mythtv-users] all recordings 1-2 min short

[R. G. Newbury]

Gordon McLellan wrote:
> In the past few days, something changed on my myth network.  I'm not
> sure what, as I've been happy for a month or so now after a rebuild of
> both the master backend server and frontend/backend combo "htpc"
> 
> Now all recordings are ending 1-2 min "early" ... I mean ending early
> in the literal sense; a 30 min program records 28 min of video.  A 1
> hour program records 58 minutes of video.   The time on both the slave
> and master backends are correct, and synchronized regularly using cron
> and ntpdate.   It's not as if a full hour is being recorded, but the
> time is just wrong, so I catch the end of one program and don't get to
> see the end of another.  The recordings start on time, but end early.
> 
> I'm not seeing anything in the logs that points out an abnormal
> termination of the recording process.
> 
> Any ideas what I should check?

Check in Setup -> TVSettings -> General about 3 pages in, and there are 
settings for the global pre-roll and post-roll. Sounds like you have 
-120 (seconds) in there.

Geoff