Joe- Are you Joe Caputo with whom I went to high school, and some college? Hey! How are you these days? -Nathaniel
On 6/16/05, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 0:46, Robert Tsai wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:14:55PM -0700, Blammo wrote: > > > Another example is several of the big networks making a program run > > > til, for example, 9:05pm This bumps a 9pm scheduled recording, when > > > in fact, I wouldn't mind missing the first 5 minutes to get the > > > other 55. > > > > This scenario is quite normal, and easy to spot: in the listings data, > > the show will run 8:05-9:05pm. In the USA, for example, ABC does this > > on Wednesday evenings, running everything 2 minutes after the hour. > > > > When setting up your Wednesday evening recording schedules (say) > > simply set everything up to begin/end 2 minutes early (e.g., mentally > > note that you want all your schedules to begin/end on the hour, unless > > you know you don't have any conflicts). > > > > > Would would be nifty would be a configurable "fudge" factor, that > > > you could set, allowing the scheduler to pick up XXX minutes into > > > the program, as soon as the tuner became free. Or maybe, no fudge > > > factor at all. Maybe it checks every minute, and if a tuner suddenly > > > became free, it would start recording. > > > > You essentially have a conflict between a show that runs "late" and > > another one that starts "on time" (or early), so you should fix your > > schedules accordingly. > > In general, it's rather unreasonable to expect users to go through their > entire recording schedule looking for these scenarios, especially when > you consider that many of the scheduled recordings might be "record at > any time" or other such non-time-specific rules. In such a case, > changing the recording schedule would change it for the entire rule, > rather than just that instance. > > IMHO, a better solution would be to add an option to the Conflict > Resolution screen; something like "Allow recording of non-conflicting > portion only". An override like that would affect only that particular > showing, and would be much easier to remedy than editing the recording > schedule (and possibly remembering to change it back again later). > > Just my $.02. > > -JAC > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Nathaniel Manista [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users