On 10/22/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Rigby wrote: > > >There seems to be a general feeling amongst Australian television > >channels that they can pretty much do as they please and the viewers > >will eat it up and come back for more anyway. Perhaps this is due to > >the fact there is only 3 commercial stations, plus two government > >sponsored channels (who behave much better). There isn't a lot to turn > >to when you get fed up with the treatment of viewers by one channel. > > > >They regularly run late. They mix repeats in with new series to pad > >them out. For example, I think one channel was padding out NCIS by > >alternating between a new episodes and old ones for most of this year. > >They often take programs off the air without any announcement, leaving > >you with no idea if they're ever going to come back to it. They also > >run series out of order. I have no idea how they think this benefits > >them, but they do it. They'll also cut bits out of programs to fit in > >more ads. Repeats of the Simpsons reguarly have scenes cut to allow > >more ads to be shown. > > > >Ok, that was a bit of a rant, but I think it might help for the devs > >to have an idea of what we're using Myth to deal with when they're > >making decisions about the future of Myth (eg. the cutting post-roll > >to 30secs debate). > > > > > Of course, with only 5 channels, you could easily get 3 x PVR-150's (or > even 4 or 5) and use hard start-early/end-late settings, which would be > guaranteed to work--as opposed to soft padding, which may or may not > work depending on other schedules... ;) > > Mike
Yeah I could. But my case/MB only has 1 PCI slot (it was a bad choice). So a new case, plus MB, plus 3 x DVB-T cards is more than I'm willing to spend at the moment. I'm making do by not scheduling a show back to back with anything on a commercial channel, unless it's on the same channel. If it's on the same channel, the soft-padding is automatically dropped, and if the show runs over it ends up on the start of the next recording. If I was using hard-padding, I'd have to remove the padding each time this happens, which from a quick check of upcoming records is about once per night. So in effect, if I'm scheduling back-to-back, I want the padding dropped nearly every time. This isn't a perfect solution, but it's the most efficient way to do things with what I have available to me. It wouldn't work for everyone, but it does for me, because the situation is different to what most people are dealing with. Which I guess is the point I was trying to make, that the flexibility of myth is one of it's best features, and allows it to be a great solution in so many different circumstances. Ben Rigby _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev