Schedule back-to-back recordings - Not working

[Jeditrav]

TV-Server Version: TVE3 - MP1.0rc1 - svn18951
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Hi,

I've been having troubles with scheduling back-to-back recordings ever since changing over to TVE3. In the old TVE2, in MediaPortal Configuration, there was an option to 'ignore pre/post recording within block for back-to-back recordings'. I'm set to start recording 2 minutes before program starts and stop recording 5 minutes after program ends. So, if I had a program scheduled from 8:30 to 9:30, followed by a program from 9:30 till 10:30, the first schedule would record from 8:28 till 9:30, then the second schedule would record from 9:30 till 10:35 - worked perfectly.

Since upgrading to TVE3, I cannot schedule back-to-back recordings. There is no option to 'Ignore pre/post....', and when I try to schedule back-to-back recordings, the first schedule goes through fine, but when I try to schedule the following recording I get a 'Recording Conflict' dialog window come up, with the options to 'Skip new recording', 'Skip conflicting recording', or 'Keep Conflict'. In TVE2, pressing 'Keep Conflict' would return me to the schedule recordings screen, with both programs scheduled and the pre/post settings ignored - worked perfectly. In TVE3, in the 'Recording Conflict' dialog, pressing 'Keep Conflict' does nothing - the dialog window stays up and I can't schedule the recording. Pressing to 'skip' either the new recording or the conflicting recording works, but that's no good because then only one program is scheduled. I typically use the Xface skin - I tried scheduling some back-to-back recordings in Blue Two & Blue Two Wide to see if it was a skin issue; as it turns out, those 'Blue' skins don't even offer the option 'Keep Conflict', only to 'skip' one of the programs!

I only have one, analogue Tv Tuner - I'm guessing it's a non-issue for people with multiple tuners.

I've tried with the 'Conflict Manager' both on and off - I get the same behaviour either way, scheduling back-to-back recordings does not work. What does the Conflict Manager do? Does it even work?

Lately, I've been working around the issue by scheduling a manual recording to make one, big long recording. This is far from ideal.

Any ideas? Anybody else having this problem? Anybody with a single tuner & TVE3 NOT having this problem? Please advise if any further info is needed.

Regards,
Trav.

[Jeditrav]

Same problem being reported here - No "keep conflict" option displayed

and here - Scheduled recordings: ignoring of overlapping shows isnt possible anymore

[pipeme]

I got it too. I might see if someone has put a bug report in, if not I might try and do it today some time.

[Bavarian]

hey guys,

I will have a closer look to this issue

[pipeme]

thanks mate

[nobbly]

Originally Posted by Bavarian

hey guys,

I will have a closer look to this issue

Thanks for looking into it.

The best fix to the problem with 'padding not being ignored in back to back recordings on separate muxes', would be to put back the option to 'Ignore padding for back to back recordings'. However, this issue is only a problem when trying to do back to back recordings on separate muxes on the same tuner. If the back to back recordings are on the same mux then padding is not a problem - the TV server already accepts these as not conflicting (obviously!).

At the moment the only work around to this problem with the padding conflict on back to back recordings on separate muxes, is to disable global padding and then to manually change every scheduled recordings padding in its settings screen (in the MP client gui) whether they are back to back recordings or not, which is a bit time consuming and easy to forget. Re-enabling the 'Keep conflict' option would make it easier as then only the padding of the conflicting back to back scheduled recordings need to be changed in their settings screen (in the MP client gui), and the global padding setting can be kept.

Of course, the 'Keep conflict' option should also be re-enabled so that non back to back recordings on separate muxes which are conflicting can still be recorded, or at least partially recorded, for those who like this option.

[blackdad]

Any joy on this yet?

cheers

[Jeditrav]

Nothing yet it would seem - perhaps in the next SVN?

[Bavarian]

I am on it
Just wait for the next SVN

[pipeme]

has this been resolved in an SVN yet?