[linux-dvb] Re: idea to enhance timed recordings

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Markus Schorer wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> could the "current program"-text be used to trigger scheduled
> recordings?
> how exact is this information?

In my experience, unfortunately it is not too precise.
Some channels seem to pre-prorgam this table for the whole
day and just use the clock to broadcast this information,
which the of course is in no way synchronized to the actual
broadcasts. 
Others seem to switch it manually, again with the effect that
it sometimes is not synchronized to the actual broadcasts. 

It reminds me of the early days of VPS, which was not reliable
either back then.


> maybe this is not so good for starting, but for stopping the recording?

At least for case 2 above that might help. As an additional
heuristic, one could make sure that the recording never gets
shorter than the duration of the program to be recorded.

Carsten.


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