Wierd Problem with padding

[big poppa pump]

Hi!

I just installed the 6.5.20 server version on WHS a couple of weeks back. Everything seems to be working fine except for one weird glitch. I have WWE Monday Night Raw setup as a favorite with 1 minute padding before the show and 10 minutes after the scheduled run time. Before the upgrade everything was working fine.
However, I started noticing this since last week. It would start recording a minute early however it will stop recording on time. It happened last week and it happened again today. Both times it started a minute early, but stopped at the scheduled stop time. Is there some new feature or setting in this SageTV version that is doing this.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[robogeek]

Is there a recording on the same channel after WWE Monday Night Raw? If there is a recording scheduled after the WWE Monday Night Raw on the same channel, you should look for the setting 'Remove padding on back to back favorites' option in Detailed Setup->Customize and make sure it is set to No.

[big poppa pump]

Originally Posted by robogeek

Is there a recording on the same channel after WWE Monday Night Raw? If there is a recording scheduled after the WWE Monday Night Raw on the same channel, you should look for the setting 'Remove padding on back to back favorites' option in Detailed Setup->Customize and make sure it is set to No.

No, there is no recording. I have been recording this program for the past year every week and I never had this problem till I upgraded to the new beta 2 weeks back. So I definitely know its something in the beta release.

[robogeek]

Originally Posted by big poppa pump

No, there is no recording. I have been recording this program for the past year every week and I never had this problem till I upgraded to the new beta 2 weeks back. So I definitely know its something in the beta release.

Are you watching the show live and pressing the Stop button near the end of the show? I've noticed this new 'feature' (I'm not sure if this is in the Default STV or if this is only with the SageMC STV I'm using) where pressing Stop when the show is almost over will not only stop the playback, but also stop the recording. I assume SageTV is seeing that most of the show is watched and marks the show as Watched after a certain percentage of the show is actually watched. And then pressing the Stop button after that percentage will result in the recording being stopped early because SageTV doesn't record shows that are marked as Watched...I hope that made sense

If that's not the case, then I'd recommend installing the latest non-beta SageTV v6.6.2 release. If padding doesn't work in the latest release, then it's probably time to submit a bug report unless anybody else has any other thoughts.

[Tiki]

I have noticed this same behavior occasionally with previous versions, but couldn't reproduce it or detect a pattern. I am still using 6.5.9 by the way.

This same thing just happened again last week and I think I may have detected a pattern...

For me I had a favorite set for Eureka with 2 minutes padding on the front and 15 minutes on the back. The recording chopped off the 15 minutes of padding at the end just like for the OP. What I noticed though, was that the next show on that channel (SyFy) was also a favorite (Wharehouse 13). Wharehouse 13 was a repeat that had already recorded earlier in the week, but I had not watched it yet.

My system has 5 tuners, and there was only one other recording at that time and I wasn't watching anything "Live" at the time, so there was no need to chop the padding. Also, that other recording was on a different channel and Sage used a different capture device to record it than it did for Eureka.

So I think the pattern is that Sage treated this as back to back favorites on the same channel and stripped the padding, even though the second favorite wasn't recorded (and wasn't supposed to be recorded).

I have not reported this to Sage yet - I was going to wait to see if it happened again with similar circumstances.

[big poppa pump]

Originally Posted by Tiki

I have noticed this same behavior occasionally with previous versions, but couldn't reproduce it or detect a pattern. I am still using 6.5.9 by the way.

This same thing just happened again last week and I think I may have detected a pattern...

For me I had a favorite set for Eureka with 2 minutes padding on the front and 15 minutes on the back. The recording chopped off the 15 minutes of padding at the end just like for the OP. What I noticed though, was that the next show on that channel (SyFy) was also a favorite (Wharehouse 13). Wharehouse 13 was a repeat that had already recorded earlier in the week, but I had not watched it yet.

My system has 5 tuners, and there was only one other recording at that time and I wasn't watching anything "Live" at the time, so there was no need to chop the padding. Also, that other recording was on a different channel and Sage used a different capture device to record it than it did for Eureka.

So I think the pattern is that Sage treated this as back to back favorites on the same channel and stripped the padding, even though the second favorite wasn't recorded (and wasn't supposed to be recorded).

I have not reported this to Sage yet - I was going to wait to see if it happened again with similar circumstances.

That's it! WWE Monday Night Raw was followed by Royal Pains. Royal Pains is set to record as a favorite every Thursday. I had recorded it last week but had not yet seen it. And this is exactly the same reason why it happened last week too.

This needs to be resolved by Sage.

I have submitted this to SageTV. Hopefully they can resolve this issue.

[phareous]

Any update on this or workaround?