Pre-show minutes, Post-show minutes ignored

[Steerpike]

I posted details of this problem in this post, but got no response. Am I the only one experiencing this? Am I the only one to care? If no one else uses this feature, I guess I'll just shut up and hope it gets fixed someday!

I just downloaded the latest GB-PVR, hoping it would be fixed but it's not. Very simply, in the 'configuration' utility, I set a pre-show minutes and a post-show minutes of '3'. I then go into manual recording, and setup a recording for (eg) 9:00 to 9;30, each day. The first show records from exactly (*) 9:00 to 9:30, which means I often miss the very beginning. The second and all subsequent shows record from (eg) 8:57 to 9:33, as you would expect.

(*)-'exactly' - actually, starts around 9:00:30 (30 seconds after 9:00), probably needs to 'warm up' the tuner or something?

My current work-around is to choose to record from 8:50 to 9:40, which wastes a lot of space. Actually, my current work-around is to use WinTVCap, but I'm finding that the quality of the GB-PVR recordings is better, so I'd really like to get this figured out with GB-PVR !

[sub]

You got no response because I dont have time to think about and respond to everything. I try, but there is only so much time, and I'm already spread pretty thin.

My intention was that pre and post padding only applies to programme recordings (from TV Guide or Search), and that manual recordings dont apply padding because you're explicitly setting the time you want it to start and end. So in this case, its the subsequent recordings that aren't doing exactly as I expected.

I've noted it down on my things to look at for the next release if I've got time. Currently I'm busy with other higher priority stuff, but at least you know the behaviour and can easily work around the problem. It'll record a few minutes more than you want, but hey, at least you get your recording...