2 minute padding doesn't work: it messed up my show

[glitch]

I attempted to record a show this morning at 10am for 1 hour. Unfortunately I can't set per minute increments for recording so I attempted to set padding values to make sure I recorded all of my show. The recording time was from 10 to 11 and I have a pre-show and post-show padding of 2 minutes each so my file should be 64 minutes in length. It is 59:57 in length. Gbpvr started recording about 2 seconds before the show started and ended up cutting off an unknown number of seconds at the end. Why didn't the padding work???? GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log shows the following which proves, to me at least, that padding isn't active:

10:00:02.109 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
11:00:00.031 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StopRecording()
11:00:00.203 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder:one()

Is there something else I need to set to get padding to work or am I just not understanding what it's supposed to do? If I'm misunderstanding then I have to ask if there is a way to get down to the minute increments on show schedules so I can manually add my own padding like I'd do with my old ATI software.

By the way, my computer's time is the same as my digital cable receiver so I know that the software should have been able to start and stop recording at the correct times.

[sub]

I attempted to record a show this morning at 10am for 1 hour. Unfortunately I can't set per minute increments for recording so I attempted to set padding values to make sure I recorded all of my show.

Do you realise you can type in any times you want? ie, to end a recording at 11:02, type 1 1 0 2

[sub]

Padding isnt applied to manual recordings, since you explicitly have to enter a start and end time (which is why you didnt get any).

You'll notice when you schedule a recording from the TV Guide, then it gives you padding options, defaulting to the defaults in the config app.

[glitch]

ok thanks for the clarification. I wish I would have known that. It's hard to say when the episode that got messed up will be on again. The interface is a little awkward and takes time to get used to. I can't tell when I can use the mouse and when I can't (I can maneuver in the guide interface with the mouse or keyboard but I can only move through manual recording settings by using the keyboard).

I'm having to learn to *not* right-click on something to get more information because that just takes me back to the previous screen which is annoying. I thought the < > to the right of start/end times for a manual recording were things to click on and after some playing I realized they were markings to show that the left and right arrow keys can be used but I saw no indication that I could type in the times (normally a textfield denotes that).

I'm using 98.13b by the way. thanks again for your very quick reply.

[sub]

ok thanks for the clarification. I wish I would have known that. It's hard to say when the episode that got messed up will be on again. The interface is a little awkward and takes time to get used to. I can't tell when I can use the mouse and when I can't (I can maneuver in the guide interface with the mouse or keyboard but I can only move through manual recording settings by using the keyboard).

I'm having to learn to *not* right-click on something to get more information because that just takes me back to the previous screen which is annoying. I thought the < > to the right of start/end times for a manual recording were things to click on and after some playing I realized they were markings to show that the left and right arrow keys can be used but I saw no indication that I could type in the times (normally a textfield denotes that).

Get over it. Most people think GB-PVR is pretty easy to use.

[mmatheny]

You can probably find the show on BitTorrent somewhere.

[glitch]

Maybe it is pretty easy to use after you get past some of the unintuitive aspects of the interface. As for downloading it off of BitTorrent, I don't want to do that because the likelihood it is in the exact same format and quality as my other episodes is not very good and I don't want to mix my recordings with someone else's because different recording settings would most likely be used. That would be fine for watching but not archiving to make a collection like I'm doing.