Timer Can Only be Set to the Minute?

[Jeremyl]

I must record C band North American feeds from four satellites with multiple transponders. I have just purchased three Technisat receivers to deal with it, meaning we can maybe record three feeds at once. However, often one feed immediately follows another on the same satellite/polarization. Is there a way to set record start time to the second? Can I switch the timer page to show HH:MM:SS? In any event, it seems I need fine control over start time.

 

 

I have set my PC to grab NTP time every 15 minutes, so the software and hardware clock are accurate to the second. I have to record 30 minute shows (actually probably about 28:30). If I start a timer at 14:00 to end at 14:30, then the timer says the next feed is starting at 12:31 PM. One, a network feed, starts exactly at the top of the hour, and I note the start of the feed is clipped and the file time stamp says "Yesterday, December 25, 2009, 7:00:00 PM" which should be exactly correct, but it appears a second or two are missing. Since a previous feed may end in the minute before the next one begins, I could use better understanding of the exact time in and out, and how it all works.

 

I have not yet found the timer data base or timer engine. I wonder if it may be possible to modify exact times using an ascii text editor.

 

Thanks

[Lars_MQ]

No you can only programm to the minute. And you should never try to programm on exact time better add a margin to the beginning/end.

[Jeremyl]

Lars. Thanks. But in some cases we have less than one minute margin between programs. So an option to show seconds in timers would help.

[Lars_MQ]

No it won't. You have to remember there are latencies for tuning, positioning the dish or even for harddisks to spin up, this might take up to a minute or more (all together in worst case) so seconds are simply not useful.

[McenterFreak]

I completly agree with Lars, this is a stupid request. It is not possible to time recordings at the second. No broadcasters schedule at the seconds. What you need is duo or quad LNB's and more tuners (as i have, 2 FireDTV and 2 DVB-T tuners). DVBViewer and Recording service handle this perfectly, so find a little bit of money, and invest in tuners