2016-01-27, 08:40
I need to be able to set Start padding time in the Timer settings dialog to a negative number of minutes. Why?
Because sports games, especially football games, often go beyond their designated end time and FUBAR the EPG, sometimes knocking it almost an hour out of alignment.
This can be a real problem when there's a marathon of new shows following the game, such as on Sundays on CBS when you have 60 Minutes, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, and CSI Cyber all airing after it. Yes, I can set the End padding time to compensate, but all four of those shows end up taking up nearly twice as much space as they should on the server hard drive, and have most of the previous show occupying that space, which is just plain stupid.
However, if I had the option of setting a negative number of start padding time minutes, then only the first show that immediately follows the game would end up taking up an excess amount of space, but the others could be adjusted so that they only take up as much space as they would if the EPG hadn't been screwed up by the damn game. In the example above, only 60 Minutes would take up extra space, while Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, and CSI Cyber would all take up their usual hour worth of space.
In fact, I think that Start padding time should use a spinner instead of a list, and that spinner should range from -180 to 180 and start at zero. The End padding time should also use a spinner instead of a list, one that ranges from 0 to 180.
That way I could precisely control when the program starts and ends right down to the minute so that the recording takes up the least amount of space possible on the hard drive and doesn't include anything other than the show itself, not bits of the other shows that preceded and followed it.
Because sports games, especially football games, often go beyond their designated end time and FUBAR the EPG, sometimes knocking it almost an hour out of alignment.
This can be a real problem when there's a marathon of new shows following the game, such as on Sundays on CBS when you have 60 Minutes, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, and CSI Cyber all airing after it. Yes, I can set the End padding time to compensate, but all four of those shows end up taking up nearly twice as much space as they should on the server hard drive, and have most of the previous show occupying that space, which is just plain stupid.
However, if I had the option of setting a negative number of start padding time minutes, then only the first show that immediately follows the game would end up taking up an excess amount of space, but the others could be adjusted so that they only take up as much space as they would if the EPG hadn't been screwed up by the damn game. In the example above, only 60 Minutes would take up extra space, while Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, and CSI Cyber would all take up their usual hour worth of space.
In fact, I think that Start padding time should use a spinner instead of a list, and that spinner should range from -180 to 180 and start at zero. The End padding time should also use a spinner instead of a list, one that ranges from 0 to 180.
That way I could precisely control when the program starts and ends right down to the minute so that the recording takes up the least amount of space possible on the hard drive and doesn't include anything other than the show itself, not bits of the other shows that preceded and followed it.
