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Conflict with another recording?
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Last Thursday I recorded My Family from 8.30- 9.00, Would You Save a Stranger from 9.00 and The Mentalist from 9.00. When I tried to watch Would you Save-- I got the message 'Recording failed. Conflict with higher priority recording.' This has happened a few times and I can't see any reason for a conflict. I never had this trouble with my two VCR's. Anybody got any ideas? |
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Hi
Last Thursday I recorded My Family from 8.30- 9.00, Would You Save a Stranger from 9.00 and The Mentalist from 9.00. When I tried to watch Would you Save-- I got the message 'Recording failed. Conflict with higher priority recording.' This has happened a few times and I can't see any reason for a conflict. I never had this trouble with my two VCR's. Anybody got any ideas? Do you still have the My Family recording? if so go to the media table and scroll to the recording but not pressing ok press the ibutton and see what the Billed date and time value is. |
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You often get these messages in the circumstances described by GC, above but find that almost the entire programme is available. The Humax is very conservatove about what it considers an 'non-failed' recording.
![]() You need to check the recorded duration - often you just miss adverts or trailers. |
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I would have guessed at the 'My Family' schedule over ran but without knowing if you used "Accurate Record" or "Padding" can't offer a definitive response
Do you still have the My Family recording? if so go to the media table and scroll to the recording but not pressing ok press the ibutton and see what the Billed date and time value is. Padding, I believe, is adding extra time to the beginning or the end of a programme. I don't like doing this because then I miss the beginning of the next programme. In any case, doesn't this cause it to miss the electronic signal for the start of the next programme? Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Accurate Record"? |
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You often get these messages in the circumstances described by GC, above but find that almost the entire programme is available. The Humax is very conservatove about what it considers an 'non-failed' recording.
![]() You need to check the recorded duration - often you just miss adverts or trailers. |
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Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Accurate Record"?
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I went to the i button for My Family and the time given is 8.31 - 9.00, so it evidently didn't overrun.
Padding, I believe, is adding extra time to the beginning or the end of a programme. I don't like doing this because then I miss the beginning of the next programme. In any case, doesn't this cause it to miss the electronic signal for the start of the next programme? Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Accurate Record"? So if the My Family recording ended on time maybe the other two started too early. Or possibly the My Family recording went on as late as 9:00 and 50 seconds and although the reported time says 9:00 it did infact over run long enough for there not to be enough recording capability ie requiring three tuners instead of two |
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Many thanks for your advice - much appreciated, but any ideas for getting round the problem?!
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Many thanks for your advice - much appreciated, but any ideas for getting round the problem?!
Another technique I use when setting up recordings is to have a quick scan of the EPG to see if a peak-time programme is repeated in the morning, afternoon or late at night. Selecting such an instance, particularly for series recordings, makes it less likely that you will get a clash when you later set up a peak-time recording. |
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Many thanks for your advice - much appreciated, but any ideas for getting round the problem?!
If you set the Channel 4 and then Five recordings when you attempt to make the BBC reservation it should offer you an alternative.. However I see this weeks episode is on at 20:00 and not 20:30 so there shouldn't be a problem this week |
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If I find such a case, I manually look for an alternative instance. That's quite easy if the second programme has a +1 variant.
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A word of caution about Channel 4 +1. On several occasions, recently I've noticed that the EPG for Channel 4 and Channel 4 +1 is identical, i.e. the +1 is not slipped by an hour. The transmitted programmes are, it is the EPG that is an hour out.
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Thanks for all your replies. I will try putting your tips into practice.
I thought perhaps there was a way to set up the Humax to deal with these conflicts and I was missing it! |
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