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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 734595" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi craige1An interesting question. If you take MediaPortal as it is right now then I don't think it can be done with timeshift buffers. There are a few reasons for that, the biggest of which is probably that you have no way to reconstitute the recordings from the buffers. I'm not saying that would be hard, as you could probably join the required buffers and then copy the packets that you are interested in into a separate &quot;recording&quot; file (it would include all channels in the original buffer, which might be a disadvantage in terms of filesize if the recordings were to be kept long term). The tricky thing would be automating that - writing a plugin that is able to do the processing required to pull out the programme that you/&quot;the users&quot; are interested in based on records of what each buffer contains. At a high level that might seem simple, but that wouldn't be code I could write just off the top of my head...An alternative that should work &quot;as-is&quot; would be to simply record every programme. Write a simple DB script that sets the recording flag on every programme for each channel that you're interested in. You would want to automate the DB script to run periodically to keep up with the flagging, but other than that, it should be quite simple. Note that I have assumed that recordings can share tuners, which I believe is true. It would be a relatively simple code patch to allow that to happen if it doesn't already. Then you've got separate recordings for each programme on each channel, and there is no extra processing required.What do you think?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 734595, member: 82144"] Hi craige1 An interesting question. If you take MediaPortal as it is right now then I don't think it can be done with timeshift buffers. There are a few reasons for that, the biggest of which is probably that you have no way to reconstitute the recordings from the buffers. I'm not saying that would be hard, as you could probably join the required buffers and then copy the packets that you are interested in into a separate "recording" file (it would include all channels in the original buffer, which might be a disadvantage in terms of filesize if the recordings were to be kept long term). The tricky thing would be automating that - writing a plugin that is able to do the processing required to pull out the programme that you/"the users" are interested in based on records of what each buffer contains. At a high level that might seem simple, but that wouldn't be code I could write just off the top of my head... An alternative that should work "as-is" would be to simply record every programme. Write a simple DB script that sets the recording flag on every programme for each channel that you're interested in. You would want to automate the DB script to run periodically to keep up with the flagging, but other than that, it should be quite simple. Note that I have assumed that recordings can share tuners, which I believe is true. It would be a relatively simple code patch to allow that to happen if it doesn't already. Then you've got separate recordings for each programme on each channel, and there is no extra processing required. What do you think? [/QUOTE]

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