I tried to record the first episode of the new Star Trek tonight (~90 minutes), but instead got 30 minutes of Oprah on 60 minutes and then 60 minutes of Star Trek. Obviously the recording stopped at this point and I don’t have the last 30 minutes.
Is there nothing to be done about this or anyway to detect the show has not started or auto change the recording start time? I am assuming not, but when I had cable TV (Comcast/Xfinity) and the Xfinity box, if I had asked it to record the show, it would even if all the NFL games threw a wrench into the works, somehow it adjusted and recorded the show at the changed start time.
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This is a great question. I noticed something similar when there was a delay last week for an NFL game. I didn’t have any scheduled recordings, but the Program Guide didn’t get updated and was showing incorrect data due to the delay.
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Oh, that stinks. I would have to burn my server if it recorded 30 minutes of Oprah.
Glad I was never a 60 Minutes fan, I would have to stop watching that show.
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It seems to me that DirecTV managed to handle this well… I don’t know how rapidly the online guide data is updated for live sporting event changes like that, but I suppose if it were it would make sense for Plex to selectively check guide data for shows it is about to record to see if anything has changed. If that is possible…
Still have DirecTV here. It doesn’t handle anything with sporting events. I have to have recordings that are after sporting events setup to record at least 60 minutes after they should end so that I don’t miss all of an episode.
I swore I replied to this . . . but what I basically said was that I have been a TiVo user from the very beginning and I’ve never seen that ability and as a programmer . . . I’m not sure how it could easily be done as that stuff is all moving.
I’m actually thinking this is easier to deal with with Plex - as you can (this is what I do) set the recording to be 2 hours for a 1 hour show and then you can edit the video after it’s been post processed to remove commercials . . .
FWIW, the shcmancy Comcast X1 box we have now (yes, haven’t quite gotten rid of it yet) didn’t autoextend the Sunday episode of Elementary either after a game went long, so the recording was screwed on both Plex and X1. Curious to hear if anyone has suggestions. I don’t know where the guide data is downloaded to, but I’d like to see if there are ‘live’ and/or ‘sporting event’ flags that could be used to detect games OR even things like award shows. It might not be that hard (she says speaking for the poor coders who have to figure it out) to detect when a recording is adjacent a live event that could potentially go long, and give users the option to automatically add a specified number of minutes to recordings for shows scheduled to start after such an event.
