On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:01:28PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > On 01/27/2006 02:42 PM, Robert Tsai wrote: > > I use a global pre-/post-roll of 5 minutes to deal with the > > networks' purposeful DVR-defeating schedule-skew, without causing > > "hard" conflicts (although I have two tuners, so this rarely > > happens). > > But, the global pre-/post-roll have a max of 10 minutes (600 > seconds)*. Won't work for the OP's desired 30 minutes.
Ah, true. I haven't hit that limit :). > Also, even if the OP decides 10 minutes is fine, that means each > "end of the recording series" will record an extra 10 minutes. So, > assuming all your recordings are in blocks in primetime, the last > show of the evening (for each capture card) would get an extra 10 > minutes. This "best-case" scenario, however, is unlikely to > happen--more than likely, you'd get several +10 recordings per day. > An extra 10 minutes on a 30-minute show increases storage > requirements by 33.3% and by 16.7% for 1-hour shows. True, but meh. With auto-transcode, two puny 160GB drives, and an OTA-only setup with hardly anything good to watch, I effectively have infinite storage :). --Rob
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