On 5/4/05, Ralph Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > This is either a request for help or a feature request. :D > > I record Star Trek Enterprise on Sundays in the UK. > 2 episodes are broadcast one after the other on Channel 4. > > However, because of clock skew etc, it is impossible to get each recording > in completeness because a bit of one might be tagged onto the end of the > other, and because I have only 1 encoder, can't schedule them to overlap, > one ending a little later, the other a little earlier to cope with clock > differences, or the broadcasts being late/early. > > However, in theory this should be possible as long as the 2 recordings are > on the same channel. It's just that the same piece of video would end up in > 2 records with some jiggery-pokery to make it happen. > > Therefore, is it possible to arrange for consecutive recordings on the same > channel to overlap and to not cause a conflict? > > Cheers, > Ralph
Ralph, If it's clock skew, have you got ntp working on the recording machine? I found that recording 3rd Rock on ITV2 (2 consecutive programs, each 30 mins) there was almost never a problem recording (maybe 6 out of the 120+ episodes had the first 10-20 seconds of the second show recorded at the end of the first recording). Using my DVB card, there is a second or two 'missing' as one recording ends and the next starts (not a problem for me). If Enterprise is on at the same time each week, you could also use a manual recording instead to record the full 2 episode length each week On your idea, I think this would be a very useful feature to have the option of using, however, if you have several recordings in a row it could get to be a pain to navigate through the file to individual shows. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users