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Yeechang Lee wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Isaac Richards <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ijr@case.edu"><ijr@case.edu></a> says:
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<pre wrap="">'Time to record before start of show (in seconds)':
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<pre wrap="">'Time to record past end of show (in seconds)':
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<pre wrap="">are both completely accurate descriptions of what the settings do.
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Seriously, that's a relief; thanks for the confirmation. You see, I'd
always taken these descriptions at face value, and had set the
settings accordingly, but the rather fierce thread of a few weeks back
plus the current one had seriously confused me.
May I suggest that we either stop talking about "pre-roll" and
"post-roll," phrases which mythfrontend itself never uses, and switch
to something like "start early, if possible" and "end late, if
possible"? (Messages like
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc1738" href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/18897?do=post_view_flat#18897"><URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/18897?do=post_view_flat#18897></a>
tell me that even developers get confused on this issue.)
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But that is wrong. Your "if possible" notation would confuse things
the same way they are confused now. It is not "if possible", but
rather "after the scheduling is done", which is a problem for the hidef
tuner cards that take 15-20 seconds to lock in a channel. You lose
that much of the beginning of the show.<br>
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I believe what Steven was saying is that there should be settings for
"hard" and "soft" pre-roll and post-roll. Soft being ones that are
added after scheduling and hard being ones that are taken into account
by the scheduler, which would then use the three tuner cards that he
has.<br>
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Do I have this correct Steven?<br>
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W<br>
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