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davidrkirk at gmail

Mar 6, 2012, 11:19 PM

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Starting Recordings Early

Hi,

The problem: some TV broadcasters don't stick to their own schedules so I'm
missing the beginning of some of shows.

The solution is apparently to go in to Set Recording Priorities and tell it
to start recording 2 minutes early.

Unfortunately that only applies to new programs that I schedule. Is there
a way to make it apply to existing scheduled programs?

Thanks

David Kirk

olivuts at yahoo

Mar 6, 2012, 11:34 PM

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Re: Starting Recordings Early [In reply to]

>________________________________
> From: David Kirk <davidrkirk [at] gmail>
>To: mythtvnz [at] lists
>Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2012 8:19 PM
>Subject: [mythtvnz] Starting Recordings Early
>
>
>Hi,
>
>
>The problem: some TV broadcasters don't stick to their own schedules so I'm missing the beginning of some of shows.
>
>
>The solution is apparently to go in to Set Recording Priorities and tell it to start recording 2 minutes early.
>
>
>Unfortunately that only applies to new programs that I schedule. Is there a way to make it apply to existing scheduled programs?
>
>
>
>
>Thanks
>
>David Kirk
>
>
>You will have to edit all your previous recording to add the 2 minutes early start.
>

markk at kc

Mar 7, 2012, 1:34 PM

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Re: Starting Recordings Early [In reply to]

Here's a script that I have in /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-hard-padding
Replace <your password> with whatever your password is and it should
check once a day for recordings with no start and end extension times.
Note that everything following the echo should be on one line.

#!/bin/bash

echo "UPDATE record set startoffset = 2 , endoffset = 5 where recordid !
= 0 and startoffset=0 and endoffset=0;" | mysql -umythtv -p<your

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 23:34 -0800, Steve V wrote:
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> From: David Kirk <davidrkirk [at] gmail>
> To: mythtvnz [at] lists
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2012 8:19 PM
> Subject: [mythtvnz] Starting Recordings Early
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> The problem: some TV broadcasters don't stick to their own
> schedules so I'm missing the beginning of some of shows.
>
>
> The solution is apparently to go in to Set Recording
> Priorities and tell it to start recording 2 minutes early.
>
>
> Unfortunately that only applies to new programs that I
> schedule. Is there a way to make it apply to existing
> scheduled programs?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> David Kirk
>
>
> You will have to edit all your previous recording to add the 2
> minutes early start.
>
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davidrkirk at gmail

Mar 7, 2012, 1:46 PM

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Re: Starting Recordings Early [In reply to]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mark <markk [at] kc> wrote:

> Here's a script that I have in /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-hard-padding
> Replace <your password> with whatever your password is and it should
> check once a day for recordings with no start and end extension times.
> Note that everything following the echo should be on one line.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo "UPDATE record set startoffset = 2 , endoffset = 5 where recordid !
> = 0 and startoffset=0 and endoffset=0;" | mysql -umythtv -p<your
> password> mythconverg

Thanks Mark. I was just in the process of updating all my recordings via
MythWeb when this came through. I've run your script and it looks like
it's done the job.

Thanks heaps.

David Kirk

tortise at paradise

Mar 7, 2012, 2:09 PM

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Re: Starting Recordings Early [In reply to]

On 8/03/2012 10:46 a.m., David Kirk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mark <markk [at] kc
> <mailto:markk [at] kc>> wrote:
>
> Here's a script that I have in /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-hard-padding
> Replace <your password> with whatever your password is and it should
> check once a day for recordings with no start and end extension times.
> Note that everything following the echo should be on one line.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo "UPDATE record set startoffset = 2 , endoffset = 5 where recordid !
> = 0 and startoffset=0 and endoffset=0;" | mysql -umythtv -p<your
> password> mythconverg
>
>
> Thanks Mark. I was just in the process of updating all my recordings
> via MythWeb when this came through. I've run your script and it looks
> like it's done the job.
>

Try doing variations of that on a HD TiVo (or anything else?)!

Yet another reminder of the sheer awesomeness of mythtv and its community!

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