How to record 2 shows that overlap?

[valnar]

I can't force SageTV to setup recording of two shows that overlap on the same tuner card.

I have one show that goes from 8-9pm and another from 8-10pm on the same night. I am interested only in the last 60 (actually 30) minutes of the 8-10pm show.

I figure Sage would have the intelligence to record 8-9pm of the first show, and switch to 9-10pm of the second show.

Nope. It won't even let me do it. It asks if I want to cancel recording the 1st show, which I don't want to do.

Is this functionality being planned? All this could be fixed if we were allowed to record by time, not "show".

-Robert

[EncoderHouse]

Simple answer is buy another tuner card.
hard answer, try to modify the start stop time on both show and try to trick it.

[pcuoco]

You can add negative padding to the start of the second show so it doesn't start recording until 9pm.

[valnar]

I'll try that, but I'm not at home at the moment. I thought it kicked me out of even doing that before i had a chance to change the padding.

[fidget]

Originally posted by pcuoco
You can add negative padding to the start of the second show so it doesn't start recording until 9pm.

I know that this caused nothing but problems for me when I tried this under 1.4 (read, I lost all ability to apply start and end offsets for ANY program until I cleared the negtative ones). Be careful when applying a negative offset until that feature is officially supported.

[pcuoco]

Thanks for the warning, Fidget.

I'm using a -1 minute pad so far without issue in the beta .12 to compensate for NBC starting Law & Order at 9:59, while 24 is scheduled to record from 9 to 10.

It cleared the yellow conflict icon, and recorded both shows last night. But, I had never tried it before, so if it starts to cause problems, I'll let you know.