Why is post-padding limited to 89 minutes?

[Will Pittenger]

For sports events, I like to add time in case the event doesn't end by the scheduled time. With most races, that's 60 minutes. With baseball games, that's typically 90 minutes. If I expect rain during a race, I might want an entire 3 hours.

Unfortunately, NextPVR limits me to a mere 89 minutes. Why?

[sub]

Why is post-padding limited to 89 minutes?

Just because

I thought an hour and a half sounded like plenty. I don't think anyone has ever asked about this limit since NextPVR was created. I could bump it up in the next release though if you'd like.

You can always schedule a manual recording for whatever start/stop time you like in the mean time.

[johnsonx42]

there's also a utility specifically for helping with sports events, NextEnd: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ty.NextEnd

it's mostly discussed here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ing-events

[BrettB]

You might also want to check out NextEnd which will monitor many sports events and automatically extend the recording if the event runs late.

[pcostanza]

Where in the hell could you ever get better service for FREE software than here?
Just another time I should mention the DONATE button.

[Will Pittenger]

there's also a utility specifically for helping with sports events, NextEnd: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ty.NextEnd

it's mostly discussed here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ing-events

How does it know to extend the recording? I question the schedule source would be updated.

[gEd]

How does it know to extend the recording? I question the schedule source would be updated.

it's mostly discussed here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread...porting-events

see post #5
"I pass the title and subtitle and time to the site which monitors events and tells me if the show is active and final."

[mvallevand]

If you don't want to be bothered reading record the following shows, multi-rec will let you do that without even using a tuner.

Martin

[Handy.Man]

TV Listings let me enter postpadding of 120 minutes and more http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...TVListings
And it did record 120 minutes more :-)

But beware that shows scheduled with TV Listings/Recordings should only be managed with TV Listings. Trying to update a negative padding scheduled recording with TV Guide/Recordings did crash NextPVR in the past.