AR/Padding question

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SunnysideUK

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Is it possible to have disable AR with zero padding?
Is is possible to have "negative" padding, that is end early (or start late)?
Many of my recordings would be showing adverts as that time (especially at the ends), so no programme loss.
 
Maybe not the same on the FOX, but with 2000T and 5000T you can set the recording in the normal way (with padding set to zero). You can manually adjust the end time which will disable AR and give a recording that starts and ends as the timer says (approximately). Chances are it won't work as you want. Broadcasters rarely start the programmes on time. eg Dancing on Ice overruns and Vera was 2 minutes late which could push the end late - don't think it did, but a risk.
 
Although 0 is a special padding value, as above, you can set the padding values to a small number, 1 minute, say, in the various GUIs. The values in seconds are stored in INT database columns. If a 1s value could be forced into the schedule database, I expect it would work as well as 60s. The database column names for the padding values have the ul prefix, indicating that negative values are not expected. That's not to say that a negative(=large unsigned positive) value might not accidentally work, if it were forced into the database.

OT bug in sqlite3:
Code: 
# sqlite3 /mod/boot/../setup.db 
SQLite version 3.38.5 2022-05-06 15:25:27
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> .databases
main: /mod/setup.db r/w
sqlite> .tables
sqlite> select name from main.sqlite_master where type='table'; 
sqlite> select * from TBL_MENUCONFIG;
Parse error: no such table: TBL_MENUCONFIG
sqlite> 
# sqlite3 $(realpath /mod/boot/../setup.db )
SQLite version 3.38.5 2022-05-06 15:25:27
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> .databases
main: /var/lib/humaxtv/setup.db r/w
sqlite> .tables
TBL_ANT            TBL_FACTORYCONFIG  TBL_MENUCONFIG     TBL_USERCONFIG   
sqlite> 
#
 
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