add time adjustment

[johnsonx42]

Many of my shows record with the first 5-10 seconds cut off, and catch the first few seconds of the following show at the end of the recording. My HTPC's time is perfect down to the second, which means some of the broadcasters' clocks are a bit ahead or they're doing it on purpose for some reason. Either way, it's irritating. Pre-Padding is absolutely NOT a valid solution for this problem; padding doesn't work a great deal of the time, and I don't need a full minute anyway, just a few seconds.

I'd like to just have NVPR 'pretend' that the current time is actually 10 seconds later than it actually is. That way all recordings would start 10 seconds earlier, and end 10 seconds earlier.

Would it be terribly difficult to add a Time Offset parameter whereby whenever NPVR gets the current time for any reason, the Time Offset is added or subtracted accordingly? I know it could cause problems if the offset gets large, but for small values it shouldn't be an issue.

[imilne]

Wow, I'm amazed your broadcasters actually manage to only be a few seconds out. Here in the UK it's not unusual for programmes to start anywhere up to 5 minutes late (or early). They just don't seem to care.

[Reddwarf]

johnsonx42: you have a luxury problem . Don't complain as long as your broadcaster is within a minute. Some of our broadcasters can be up to 18 minutes late here, and one has a habit of starting a minute or two early.

BTW: both post- and prepadding works excellent for me.

[johnsonx42]

well even if other people have such problems worse than me, I still think it would be useful to have a "Time Offset" parameter. I looked for a method to force windows time off by a specified amount of time, but couldn't find anything. Obviously I can just disable ntp sync and keep time locally, but it will drift before long. I guess if sub isn't willing to put in the offset parameter maybe I will have to do that.

[mvallevand]

Personally I'd consider TV detox if missing 5 seconds at the beginning of a show bothered me, but in all seriousness I can't imagine any director including significant details that quickly given that most people are watching LiveTV.

Martin