[mythtvnz] Pre and post record extended times not always activating.

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:40:49 +1200, you wrote:

>On 29/04/13 18:22, Paulgir wrote:
>> I have set the times that a recording starts and finishes,before and
>> after the scheduled time, to around 3 minutes.
>> This worked fine on my previous install but on this one seems to be
>> unreliable, finishing early when another recording starts immediately
>> after another.
>> I have 4 tuners with multirec enabled (4 virtual tuners each).I don't
>> see any conflicts in the scheduler.
>> I think I have probably missed a setting in the BE.Any suggestions what
>> it might be?
>> The three options for input priority in BE setup I have set to 0  1 and
>> 1 for each tuner.
>
>There's a couple of places to set this up, one is hard padding and one 
>is soft, perhaps you chose the one other than you intended this time?
>
>hads

Yes, the soft padding is a general setting that applies to all
recordings.  It can be found in:

  Setup->Video->General->General(Advanced)
    Time to record before start of show (secs)
    Time to record after end of show (secs)

If you run out of tuners (or multirec virtual tuners), and there are
back to back shows scheduled, the soft padding will be ignored.

The hard padding is set from the recording rules.  Each recording rule
can have its own settings.  But the global setting is in the Default
Template that is copied into any new recording rule when it is
created.  I believe this is different from previous versions where it
was a global setting somewhere in a menu, as templates are new in
0.26.  You can find the Default Template in:

  Manage Recordings->Recording Rules

It is alphabetically under D:

  Default (Template)

In the template or a recording rule, select Schedule Options and set
the values for:

  Start recording on time
  End recording on time

I normally set 60 seconds of pre-roll and 60 seconds of post-roll in
the soft padding settings, and 0 minutes of pre-roll and 0 minutes of
post-roll for most Sky recordings.  For Freeview channels, since I
have more than enough tuners that I will never have a conflict, I use
0 minutes of pre-roll and 3 minutes of post-roll for most programs.
For some TV2 programs, 1 minute of pre-roll is required.  For late
night programs on TV One and TV3, due to their late news and sports
often running late, I use more post-roll.  I have often needed up to
10 minutes.