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

[Paulgir]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:06:14 +1200, Stephen Worthington  
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> 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.
>
Yes ,It was in  Setup->Video->General->General(Advanced) that I set the  
times.I will do the hard padding adjustments as well.

Cheers

Paul