[mythtv-users] What about an impatient wife ?

[Mark J. Small]

On January 4, 2010, Gareth Glaccum wrote:
> From: Mark Small <msmall at eastlink.ca>
> 
> > > So during prime time here in the U.S. I usually have four recordings
> > > running at the same time from about 7PM-10PM.  She can't wait...
> > >
> > > So my question is does this screw up recordings when being watched?
> > > Of coarse she suffers through the commercials but she doesn't care.
> >
> > I do it all the time on my 0.21 setup.  The only problem I see is that
> > once the recording finishes I can't skip forward any more.   The osd
> > shows 0:00 of 0:00.  Exiting to the recording menu and hitting play fixes
> > this, and I don't lose my position.
> 
> This only ever happened to me if the recordings were being transcoded
>  afterwards. If the transcode finished, the old file was deleted, and
>  replaced. (As it was linux, only the file header/inode went), so I was
>  still able to view the rest of the recording.
> 
> Fix was to turn off transcoding, as I didn't really need it.
> 
This still happens to me, and I don't do any transcoding.  I do commercial 
detection, but I don't know if that makes any difference.

Mark