(2023-07-13, 11:08 AM)mvallevand Wrote:(2023-07-13, 04:17 AM)Rich A Wrote: Oh, I have to ask .. why would I ever "cancel" a recording? Especially if my "TEAM" was winnng? <grin>
I can't answer that but your logs earlier showed you doing exactly this. I expect one example would be recording the post game show in case the game goes long.
Sports is a good use case for parallel thumbnails and timing files as you have better control over viewing in-progress recordings.
Martin
Ah well for past few weeks I've been doing a LOT of stuff I normally do not do while testing . Sometimes I have sometthing going on while testing and have gotten the result I needed and then just "cancel" that test session in the middle of doing something. So logs are gonna show a lot of stuff that is not normally being done.
However, you refereneced a show often "canceled" ( a Mets baseball post game show ) Actually you WILL see that come up often in my logs. I record all the NY Mets ball games. Almost all are airing on the SNY channel. ALL the Mets games on SNY ALWAYS have a "post game" 1l2 hr show that airs immediaetly after scheduled end of the actual game. So I have that "post game" show set up to auto record any time it airs. I do that because both the "game" recordng and that "post game " recordings are LIVE events.
Both are set to auto record. Game is normally 2 hours. Post game 1/2 hour. Now I have set up and recorded a 2 1/2 hour combined time slot comprising of the GAME followied by the POST GAME . I'm not really inerested in the post game .. only the game. So if the game end ends early or AT it's designated time, after Watching that game recording I'll either cancel or delete the game AND the post game show.
OR if the game has run over it's recorded time slot, I'll watch it, delete it and then watch the rest of the game as it was recorded on the "post game" show. I've never figured out how to get that optional "sports shows auto extend "thing to work Haven't looked at that in years. And setting up the regular game recording parameters by PADDING the end by 30 or more minutes used to sometimes cause problems (long ago when I first set this up) I just found having all the POST GAME shows auto record normally for some reason has always worked best for me. I now never miss any "extra inning" or extended Mets games. FWIW most of my ways of doiing things were originally devised and set up long before vs 6 of Nextpvr and in fact during the last year or so of the GPVR era when I was originally using the SnapStream PVR program.
FWIW, I also normally start watching a live game around 30 minutes or so after it started. Then while it's recording I watch from the beginnikng and then can "Jump" ahead in real time to skip any commericials. By the time I get to the end of the game I've been jumping past commericials and usually end up watching the last minutes in "real time". Have the jump forward and back keys and mouse reprogrammed to work better (like 2 minute forward and 10 seconds back) And I can mash those KB or mouse buttons very quickly in correct sequence to fine tune my position and pretty much get close to the commercial end point. For me it's VERY quick and accurate and frankly I almost never see any commericials. Been doing this way since my days of using the Snap Stream PVR 20 years ago. Since then have "looked at" auto skipping progrs like Comskip" etc. but frankly not bothered to check that stuff out as my wierd way of watching sports shows continues work fine for me.
Also this "new" thumbnail thing has me looking at the whole video ployback (recorded and live) senerio . So I'm doing a LOT of putzing with that which of course changes everything and results in MANY cancellations and tests not normally done. FWIW, after extensive testing of watching shows (live, recorded etc.) I have become smitten wth thumbnails <grin> and kinda like the thumbnail method of seeking playing positions to skip commercials. I "THINK" my way of skipping fwd and bkw to skip around is faster, but having a graphical thumbnails rendition of the time line to scrub to and fro is totally new (to me) and I've been comparing the two techniques a lot. I'm now putzing with thumbnail generation and using it solely to jump around both live and recorded shows, with it turned on to generate live or post recording or off entirely. So LOTS of test recording and playback are beng done. So far I am liking thumbnails and I think just have to get used to "visually" seeing the graphical frames being displayed. I do a LOT of video editing and have many video editing programs and one important thing that is done either well or not with video editors is the accuracy and resposiveness of scrubbing along the displayed time video time line frame by frame. Some are sloppy, inaccurazte and not very customiazable. Others are much more smooth and accurate ..In "most" cases you "get what you pay for". <grin>
Lastly (sorry so long) this long thread is the result of all my testing which of course was heavily involved with all the video playback aspects which were all worknng so badly and breaking up all my viewing with stalling, stuttering, and freezing I could NO LONGER reliably watch live or recorded shows. The new AX file Sub just sent me has eliminated ALL the playback problems and I can now really examine and compare the Thumbnail feature. I'm just sooooo happy now. .. <grin> Sorry for such a long post but wanted to better explain WHY my current logs are so full of some strange stuff .. I still have some more learning to do regarding this "new to me" version 6 of NextPVR.
Thanks to you, sub and other contrbuters for that !
- Rich A