How do I record at most 2 hours of a show?

[bastafidli]

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to setup favorite and record at most 2 hours of the show. The practical example is Today show at NBC. It is 4 hours on workday but only hour on weekend. I would like to record only first two hours but if I select Stop time 2 hours before end, it doesn't record on weekend at all. Is there some other way to set the max duration?

Thank you

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by bastafidli

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to setup favorite and record at most 2 hours of the show. The practical example is Today show at NBC. It is 4 hours on workday but only hour on weekend. I would like to record only first two hours but if I select Stop time 2 hours before end, it doesn't record on weekend at all. Is there some other way to set the max duration?

Thank you

Two ways:

1 - Set a timed recording
2 - Just set the padding to end 2 hours before the end of the show (preferred).


I do this all the time....

[mistergq]

For the Today show, you may want to set up a manual recording that repeats based on Time and Days. Today show in my guide has 2 entries (3 hours) because we don't get the 4th hour. If we got the 4th hour, there would be a third entry. If you set that up Today as a favorite, it would record all the shows. But if you set it up as a manual recording that repeats, it will only record what you want.

For Monday through Friday, I would recommend to set up a manual recording from 7 AM to 9 AM. And then 1 hour on Saturday and Sunday.

[GKusnick]

Use two different Favorites limited by time slot.

[bastafidli]

to paul: it wont work, since weekend show is only 1 hour it will not record it at all
to misterqq: Manual recording is not pretty, I have tried that and I dont like how the recorded shows display in the list of recordings. Wife has complained :-)
to gkusnick: How to I limite favorites by time slot (1. Mo - Fri 7 - 9, Sat & Sun 7-8)

To be honest, I am little puzzled why Sage didnt included such a basic option as "record at most XXX minutes/hours".

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by bastafidli

To be honest, I am little puzzled why Sage didnt included such a basic option as "record at most XXX minutes/hours".

Because most people either record the show or movie or don't. I've yet to have a situation where I only wanted a half hour of a 1 hour program. For me it's nothing but disk space. Now I may only watch half the program. Or only 10 minutes if it sucks. And sometimes I may only want a particular segment (Gwyneth Paltrow on the CMA comes to mind) but who knows when that will play. So yes-recorded all 4 hours and ended up watching it all. I, for myself, don't see much use for this feature. I just record the program and watch what I want of it.

And as Greg suggested add 2 favorites. Go to Advanced options in the Favorite and choose the particular day or hour for it to record.

Gerry

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by bastafidli

to paul: it wont work, since weekend show is only 1 hour it will not record it at all
to misterqq: Manual recording is not pretty, I have tried that and I dont like how the recorded shows display in the list of recordings. Wife has complained :-)
to gkusnick: How to I limite favorites by time slot (1. Mo - Fri 7 - 9, Sat & Sun 7-8)

To be honest, I am little puzzled why Sage didnt included such a basic option as "record at most XXX minutes/hours".

In my location, the weekends have different titles so it works just fine (been doing it for awhile now).

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by bastafidli

to paul: it wont work, since weekend show is only 1 hour it will not record it at all
to misterqq: Manual recording is not pretty, I have tried that and I dont like how the recorded shows display in the list of recordings. Wife has complained :-)
to gkusnick: How to I limite favorites by time slot (1. Mo - Fri 7 - 9, Sat & Sun 7-8)

To be honest, I am little puzzled why Sage didnt included such a basic option as "record at most XXX minutes/hours".

Think this will take 3 Favorites (unless someone can tell me a better way)
1. Sat Show (which is only an hour) - just normal favorite restrict by day (and time if you wish) - no modification to end time
2. Sun Show (which is only an hour) - just normal favorite restrict by day (and time if you wish) - no modification to end time
3. Everyday - modify end time by 2 hours - no day restriction

1 & 2 should be higher priority in your Favorites than 3 so they will take precedence.

Of course, I think you'll get the Conflict symbol for them but I believe that should work.

As far as I know, when selecting Days, you can only specify 1. Otherwise if you could select multiple days, you would just make 2. One for weekends as normal, other for weekdays modifying endtime by 2 hours. And there would be no conflicts.

NOW that would be a feature I would like to see (unless already there and I just haven't found it). Being able to specify multiple days when restricting Favorites by day...or by hour.