[mythtv-users] howto record shows for more 10 minutes ahead of schedule and 30 mins after

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Dec 15 05:19:40 UTC 2011


On 12/14/2011 02:06 PM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> And I've put both options that I mentioned to 0.
> Since I get mixed answers which are slightly conflicting.
>
> So I'll stick with the advise of planning my recordings through 
> mythweb (which already was my standard practice)
> with the added knowledge that I should not use negative numbers for 
> start early and that the maximum is 480 minutes before start and 480 
> after ending. And that I should take the extra effort of typing the 
> numbers myself in stead of having mythtv fill them in for me.

Hehe, yeah, there was a lot of confusion in this thread.

You can use MythWeb or mythfrontend to edit your recording schedules.  
If you use mythfrontend, the UI limits you to plus or minus 480 minutes 
for start early or end late.  Technically, nothing is providing a limit 
in MythWeb, so if you typed in 500 for start early on a recording rule 
you create or edit with MythWeb, it would start that recording 8 hours 
and 20 minutes early--but I don't see anyone ever needing to do that (or 
if they think they need to, there's a much bigger problem than UI limits :).

You can set the default start early and end late values if you plan to 
use the same start early/end late values on every (or most) new rule(s) 
you create.  Those are limited to "sane" defaults providing a 40min 
window (-10 to 30 for start early and for end late) since we kind of 
expected the only people who would actually use MythTV would have 
listings that are accurate to within about half an hour of the provided 
schedule.  Just note that changing those values in setup has no effect 
on existing recording rules.  :)

Mike


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