Sports making recordings start late/suggestions

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#1

This usually happens a lot with Football, ie tonight ‘The Orville’ is starting 40 minutes late tonight. If I didn’t catch it by wanting to watch it live I would have been out of a recording. Is there anything that can be done to catch this? The main one that always gets me is ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursdays that ends up starting late and since I’m sleeping I can’t catch it and miss the last 30-40 minutes of the show.

Also, for recordings that I do catch it on… can I just cut out the beginning and the end with something like ffmpeg and then just replace the file and run comskip again or will that mess the db up somehow? I don’t want a file with a ton of time on each end since I have to pad the end with an extra 90 minutes.

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#2

I don’t keep most recordings, so now I just deleted my The Orville recording and will watch it on Hulu… tomorrow.

#3

Thanks for the heads up. I added 60min padding to my running Orville recording.

Will have to do some research to see if there are easy ways to detect when this is going to happen…

#4

Duh I’m on PST so Orville still aired at the right time.

Yes you can alter the file as you wish, then select “refresh” from the web ui to regenerate metadata like preview image and duration.

There’s also an API to run comskip again.

#5

Thanks, I already have the recomskip curl line I randomly use, so I can easily do the rest.