[mythtv-users] Recording times

Jim Morton Jim at Morton.hrcoxmail.com
Fri May 25 18:17:46 UTC 2012


On 5/25/2012 2:12 PM, Josu Lazkano wrote:
> 2012/5/23 David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com 
> <mailto:watkinshome at gmail.com>>
>
>     On 23 May 2012 15:10, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com
>     <mailto:josu.lazkano at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hello, I am trying to configure my system to record some tv
>     programs.
>     > I have schedule two recordings on same channel:
>     >
>     > 11:30 - 12:30: Alerta cobra
>     > 12:30 - 14:00: Las Mañanas
>     >
>     > I have configured this in General (Advanced) settings:
>     >
>     > Time to record before start of show (secs): 600
>     > Time to record past end of show (secs): 1800
>     >
>     > The program "Alerta cobra" must start to record at 11:20 and
>     finish at
>     > 13:00. The problem is that it stop to record at 12:30.
>     >
>     > The program "Las mañanas de cuatro" must start to record at
>     12:20 and
>     > finish at 14:30. The problem is that it start at 12:30.
>     >
>     > I have 2 capture cards and have enable 2 simultaneous recording
>     on each card.
>     >
>     > How could I configure it?
>
>     Edit the recording rule for each of the programmes.  You can do this
>     by looking at 'Upcoming Recordings' and selecting the appropriate
>     recording.
>
>     Under Scheduling Options set:
>
>     Start Recording 10 minutes early.
>     End Recording 30 minutes late.
>
>
>     I would remove these settings
>
>     > Time to record before start of show (secs): 600
>     > Time to record past end of show (secs): 1800
>
>     Search the list for 'soft vs hard padding' to see the effect of these,
>     but they don't help with scheduling back-to-back recordings.
>
>     You can create default Start Early, End Late values for new recording
>     rules in the frontend setup, (under 'Set Recording Priorities' I
>     think), but they won't get applied to existing rules.
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>
> Thanks for the reply, I think that the problem is that all recordings 
> are recorded by same card: cardid 15, sourceid 1
>
> On 0.24 I have same configuration and it works great, the first 
> program was recorded with a card and the second recordings is recorded 
> by other card number (same tuner).
>
> Is possible to configure this?
>
> Thanks and best regards.
>
>

Look for "Avoid back to back recordings" option and check it. Unless it 
has gone away for .025.

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