[mythtvnz] tuner allocation issue

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, March 26, 2008 1:25 pm, Criggie wrote:
> Wade Maxfield wrote:
>> Mark van Dijk wrote:
>>> Note 2:  all recordings start/and end 10 mins early/late
>
>> The setting you changed is a soft pre/post roll. It's suppposed to
>> behave like that. It was designed for situations where you need the
>> recording to start a little early because of some external timing issues
>> (like waiting for a set top box to change channels, or warm up, etc)
>> This topic is well covered on the main MythTV users list (you can search
>> the archives at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ )
>
>> If you want it to use different tuners, then you need to set the end
>> late time on each individual recording.
>
> You're thinking of different settings I believe.  Not at home to check,
> but you do NOT have to set each recording to start early and finish late.
> There's another setting (somewhere) that sets a "start recording early" if
> available, which works in the way you want it to.
>
> I believe it was Hadley who posted about 6 months ago with instructions on
> this.
>
> Or if the broadcasters were more accurate about starting/finishing on time
> it'd be no issue...
>
> Or in a perfect world, the digital data stream would have a tag saying
> "program starts NOW" and

EIT Actual will have this information on DTT later in the year.

> "PROGRAM adverts ads ads ads adverts PROGRAM"

Sadly it won't include this bit.

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