To Conflict or not to Conflict?

[hzwaal]

Last week we scheduled a number of recordings, some of which were overlapping. Notably, we had two recordings on the same channel, directly after each other and another on another channel which overlapped with both. With my crude ascii art skills, it would look something like:

channel 1:......,.............|==hellow-world-show======|..........................
channel 2:......|==foo-series======||==bar-show================|....

We used the default prerecording of 1 minute and postrecording of 5 minutes. When I scheduled the recording I wondered whether GBPVR would signal a conflict on this (because of the pre- and post-recording) and checked, but it though everything was ok.

Now the following happened: the foo-series ran a few minutes late (as usual) and when playing the recording, my wife (it's her series ) went ballistic when the end was missing. Luckily, I remembered the almost-conflict and started the bar-show, so she could see the end and be happy... Try that for a happy end!

Now I was wondering, what would have happened when bar-show would have been on channel 3 (would my WAF have dropped?). I haven't tried though, but it was interesting enough for a discussion anyway (I may still try it).

Shouldn't GBPVR raise a conflict-warning on this, stating that the postrecording cannot be executed?

[elite]

I think the padding should be viewed as 'if possible'

Check out ztools - I believe zback2back would help you out in this situation

It wouldn't help if foo was on channel 3 though...

I think explaining to the wife that if she was using a regular vcr she would have the same issues, but if she is that bothered she could buy an extra capture card

[hzwaal]

I think explaining to the wife that if she was using a regular vcr she would have the same issues, but if she is that bothered she could buy an extra capture card

The regular VCR would've just recorded both shows one after the other, and except from some static in the middle she would've never noticed.

I'd love to buy some new hardware, but there are no more slots for an extra capture card. I could replace a PVR150 by a PVR500 though