Recording two sequential shows cuts first show (2 Viewers)

[ziphnor]

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Problem:
I just recently recorded Scrubs and Simpsons from the same channel. Scrubs was first immediatly followed by Simpsons.

When i watched the two recordings, Scrubs(first show) had been cut off when the Simpson recording started. Luckily i could watch the rest of Scrubs in the beginning of the Simpsons recording, but definetly a nasty issue.

I have two tuners, with the same channels and im 99.99% sure i had added all the channels to both tuners when i scheduled the recordings. Anyway, shouldnt this work with even one tuner(after all the overlap between the recording just needs to be share between two recordings)?

 

[Taipan]

I have two tuners, with the same channels and im 99.99% sure i had added all the channels to both tuners when i scheduled the recordings. Anyway, shouldnt this work with even one tuner(after all the overlap between the recording just needs to be share between two recordings)?

With 2 tuners, this problem should never occur, and as you say, even with a single tuner it should not occur when the sequential shows are on the same channel.

I recall that there was a lot of dicscussion about this a while ago - but I cannot recall what the outcome was.... Maybe someone else can recall?

 

[Callifo]

I dont think there was a lot of outcome actually; no one was sure that it used to work correctly or whether this is how it should behave.

 

[Mr Hipp]

For the moment. It appears that you need two tuners to record two sequential shows on the same channel. This is due to the fact
that postrecord of the first show overlaps prerecord on the second show.

I think the right behavior for this special seconario is to have no
postrecord for the first show and no prerecord for the second show.

If it could be done like this then you would only need one tuner.

 

[KXE_DENMARK]

I would agree with Mr Hipp.. That would be a nice solution.

I have the same problem as ziphnor described, as I only have one tuner at the moment.

 

[Marcusb]

I think the right behavior for this special seconario is to have no
postrecord for the first show and no prerecord for the second show.

That may be ok for people lucky enough to live in countries where the networks can actually keep to a schedule, but in good ole Australia, where I have a ten minute buffer that is often still not long enough then we'll still have the same issues.

The outcome last time was Mr Mario (from memory) asked if anyone could confirm what version of MP this used to work with. I *think* it was around v .13 but am not certain. I am away on business at the moment, so haven't been able to check.

I think this would be a good test for anyone with older installations of MP to try and report their findings. If we can get two recordings on the same channel with one tuner card working again it will be a big improvement.

 

[Mr Hipp]

I think you missunderstand me (or?)

We should still keep the postrecord of the second show and the pre-record of the first show.

Or is it me not understand you

Mr Hipp

 

[Marcusb]

I think you mis understand me. We should have the pre and post record of both shows. Since they are on the same channel this should be possible (and used to be the case).

At the moment for us Australians, our shows always run up to ten minutes late, so if the show stops recording as soon as the next one is scheduled then we still end up with part of the show at the beginning of the next.

 

[Mr Hipp]

Then I don't understand how you manage with one tv-card. One tv-card recording to two files at the same time. Is this possible?

Can someone confirm that this is how it used to be done in the past?

 

[Marcusb]

if the two shows are on the same channel then why shouldn't it be possible? Just record to two files at the same time. In theory it should be easier to make two files with identical content than two compeltely different files.

Already a few others ahve confirmed this was the way it was. Not sure which threads, because there are a few about this.