[mythtv-users] Recordings starting a minute late instead of early

Christopher Kerr mythtv at theseekerr.com
Sat Jun 4 03:14:25 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Thanos Agelatos <agelatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Ryan Patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> field is expecting.  Positive and negative numbers are valid both by
>> the wording and the underlying algorithm.  And they behave as a
>> "common" user would expect.
>
> I would mildly disagree here - a common user finds the whole experience very
> confusing, compared to known "alternatives" - not naming names. But my aim
> here is not to start a flamewar.
> What could be done - and I could possibly volunteer some time to that - is
> that someone goes through the exact set of screens for mythtv setup as a QA
> and rephrase some things left and right. With regards to the algorithm, I'm
> a programmer also and it figured out at the end. But I had to revisit the
> configuration twice; I did it initially and left it running for a couple of
> days, only to find out that some shows (not all) were being cropped at the
> beginning.

I simply don't understand your confusion here - the direction of the
time axis is clearly define by the wording.

"Seconds to start recording early" clearly defines Earlier as being
positive. Given that time is an axis, it's obvious that negative
values thus represent Later.

I'm not sure that rephrasing it "Seconds to offset recording start"
would be any clearer, because I disagree with your fundamental
assumption that negative numbers are "obviously" earlier times.

- Chris
(OK, so I think like an engineer. I still think it's blindingly
obvious to have the field set up the way it is - 99% of the time, you
use that field to make a recording start early. If most of your
numbers are coming out negative, you've defined your axes
incorrectly...)


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