I did not find a way to record a certain TV channel on a given start time with set duration.
Let me explain why this feature is needed:
I read in the news about an important (to me at least) change in the programme on German TV next day. I desperately wanted to record the new Show, but my DVR’s program guide did not show it. It always showed the old, original TV show that I knew would not be aired on TV at that time. I tried several EPG updates and initiated a complete reload of EPG data also. But to no avail…
So I thought I was smart. I programmed a recording of the old/original TV Show that the EPG had. I checked an hour before the Change should happened and the EPG still showed the original airing.
I then had to leave my home and … voila… it did not record the changed show… because last Minute, the EPG decided that the original TV Show did not get aired and the DVR did not know about a recording at all at that time.
It is nice to have an automated way of knowing when and where TV shows need to get recorded. But I think we all hate if the software thinks it is smarter than the human using it - taking decisions on its behalf.
In order to avoid that, please provide a way to program timed recordings only by setting a channel, a starting time, and a duration.
This would also help to avoid premature cut of episodes in case that more than one Episode of the same TV show gets recorded
Example of weird situation:
Two episodes of show XY - each of them 45 minutes of airing time are due to be recorded.
I want to add a couple of minutes of recording time before and at the end of the recording time. I can only set this per epiode. I add three minutes before regular star and after regular end… then the second episode recording goes off 3 minutes early and kills my recording of the first episode (only one stream per IP address allowed)…
If I kill the series recording and configure the single Episode recordings according to my wishes, then I loose the series recording. After the recording, it may happen that no further episodes are scheduled so I cannot re-do the series recording.
This is another good example of just Setting a recoding with a given channel, a starting time and a duration. I record both episodes, add a Little extra time to the beginning as well as the end, then find the break between the episodes and cut it by myself. Result: two clean episodes, not two episodes with either no end or no beginning.
