Woahhh! This could use heaps more disk than you would like. Imagine you record the Sunday movie, followed by the Sunday Formula one! Thats a whole 5+ hours of data (i.e. 15Gig for SD) and I would leave the movie on the disk until I get around to watching it whilst I would watch the F1 within a day or less.
If this is the easiest way for now, I am happy, but I doubt it would be an ideal ending to the situation. Dave On Apr 1, 2005 12:32 PM, Joshua King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > On 31/3/05 6:09 PM, "Glenn Moloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have a "feature" (well - I call it a feature) I want to implement: > > > > Allow overlapping recordings on one tuner. > > > > I am interested in feedback on how best to implement this feacture - in > > a manner acceptable to the mythtv powers that be. > > I would find this very useful also (on my personal wish-list). > > My way of thinking for this was a little different to your approach, though > however it's done if it works I'll be happy :) > > I prefer option 2 of your options, but I'll throw this out there anyway: > > I was thinking of having the scheduler collapse recordings on a single > channel into a 'meta-recording'. For the example someone else gave, the > scheduler would have found: > 8:30-10:45 Stargate Atlantis (Channel 7) > 10:30-12:30 Puppet Masters (Channel 7) > And it would schedule a recording into a single file for 8:30-12:30 on > Channel 7. However the database would have two entries for the same file and > an initial cutlist which sets "Stargate Atlantis" to 0:00:00-2:45:00 in the > file (time offset) and "Puppet Masters" to 2:00:00-4:00:00 in the file. > > This would affect commercial skipping, though the commercial skip would only > need to be done once I believe the cutlist in each virtual recording would > block it? This would have to be modified. > > Deletions would need to use a 'reference count' mechanism (use a SQL query > for the number of rows which match the filename) and only physically delete > when the last reference is removed. You might add the possibility of > removing chunks from the file when they stop being needed by a recording > cutlist. > > Joshua King > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > mythtv-dev@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > > > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev