Is there a way to overlap recordings on the same channel?
Ok. This is encouraging. Maybe I ran into a bug on my system or it’s too underpowered. So @JCHH, @urbnsr and @philipsw, what systems are you running on? Have you been upgrading a little at a time or...
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I wonder if there is confusion about two programs on a single channel vs two programs on the same physical channel, but different sub-channel (39.1 and 39.2). So, some say it doesn’t work. ?? Read...
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My test was performed on a Linux VM running on very modest hardware (a Late 2012 Mac Mini, i7-3615QM, 16 GB RAM). The VM has 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM configured. So, my test configuration was fairly...
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I’m running Plex on a NAS (linux) with an HDHomerun Quatro tuner. If I record, for example a half-hour show (with an extra 10min on each side) on channel 001 from 5:50 to 6:40, I can also record...
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Yes, it’s a good point. I’m looking at the recordings expecting both to be 32 minutes and have the same video at 1 minute remaining in the recording as the next one has for the first minute. I’m also...
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Yes, I know I have 3 tuners, but in the case I might record NBC, ABC and CBS all in the same time slot I want to know if I can set them for 1 minute over and under or if I have to set those to zero....
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Sorry then I have misunderstood. When I wrote “I do this all the time”, it’s under the assumption that 2 tuners were involved. Read full topic
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JCHH: can Glad to hear that it worked. I had lots of recordings that were too short lately. Read full topic
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You asked which DVR. It’s NextPVR. It is free and I use a tool to create good quality XMLTV for the EPG. Regarding the overlap, which it can do. With NextPVR, you can record programs from all the...
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Oh, I have one more question @urbnsr , do you have “convert video while recording” set? I’m wondering if it’s able to copy it from whatever intermediate file it’s creating if that’s set Read full topic
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Err… so a Plex employee said this doesn’t work. I’m curious how some people got it working if it isn’t a feature. Read full topic
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I’m not sure how folks are doing that either. You can do a few min before and/or after in the advanced, recording settings when setting the recording. But afaik it won’t work for two things playing...
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A Free Tuner is the only way I know. Seems impossible otherwise. Read full topic
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taraba: do you have “convert video while recording” set? I’ll test this as well when I get a chance. I don’t use this feature as, in the past, it has resulted in some recording instability (likely due...
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ah ok I see all his tuners were busy recording other channels. apologies for my misunderstanding Read full topic
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Well, yea… I ALWAYS record a min. before and a min. after. If I have a free tuner, the program that’s airing next starts on the free tuner while the first tuner is finishing it’s recording - on the...
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yeah. my bad. I totally misunderstood the issue/question at first. Read full topic
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I may not understand it yet - but that’s how it works at my house. Read full topic
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@taraba I do not have “Convert video while recording” set to Transcode. It is set to off. If Plex truly does not support back-to-back recording on one tuner natively, then the only thing I can think...
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Contrary to what I said above, it appears to be working on my HDHR device. I have several shows scheduled to record back to back with “buffer minutes” added to start and end. I don’t let my server...
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