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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Cradley, Halesowen, W.Mids
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Scheduling Tracking Bug
I've suspected and commented on this before but I think I have proof that schedule tracking doesn't work once a recording has started.
I have 2 minutes and 5 minutes padding (as I don't like relying on start/end signals on certain channels) and my record schedule for today's F1 on BBC1 and BTCC on ITV4 was as follows:- F1 - BBC1 - 9:00 to 12:00 (so actual will be 8:58 to 12:05) BTCC - ITV4 - 11:45 to 18:00 (so actual will be 11:43 to 18:05). It turns out that I actually watched the F1 downstairs on the cable box so the Humax was in standby whilst recording the above. As the F1 finished at 12:15 (making all the BBC programs 15 minutes out) I thought I'd see what the Humax was doing. I brought it out of standby and it came on the BBC News channel (ch 200) and ITV4 was recording. Changing to BBC 1 and bringing up the"i" plate showed that it was still showing the original EPG (i.e. Diagnosis Murder running from 12:10 onwards) whilst the actual program was the BBC News which should have been from 12:00 to 12:10. Bringing up the recorded schedule shows that the F1 was still scheduled at the original time (i.e. 9:00 to 12:00 - obvously as the next F1 is over a week away it has no data to pickup the next recording). Pressing red to bring up the cached EPG showed that it had an updated EPG and the F1 finished at 12:15 and the news was now running from 12:15 to 12:25. Exiting back to BBC 1 and bringing up the "i" plate now showed the updated EPG. So even though BBC 1 had finished recording as ITV4 was still recording there was no way the Foxsat could have downloaded an updated EPG. Looking at the listing for BBC1 it would appear that it look as though it is updating itself on the fly as each program finishes and the next one starts(could it be using the the now and next data from the standard non-freesat EPG data that the channel broadcasts). Anyway the point being is that it had the information to know that the F1 was overruning so why did it not update it's recording schedule on the fly? I've noticed that this also occurs when scheduling a recording following a program that has overrun (i.e. recording the news after the football) that whilst the "i" plate and cached EPG seem to show the updated EPG information (even before the scheduled recording has started) the schedule recording still happens at the original time and not the time the updated EPG shows. |
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