MCE and consecutive recordings

Well, Media Center didn’t do so hot on consecutive recordings.  Sci-fi channel runs Stargate SG1 episodes back to back from 6:00 PM to 11 PM (5 showings) every Monday.  The Media Center picked up that it needed to record all five due to me telling it to record the series; however, each show started to loose a little of it’s beginning to the show previous, and then there were gaps of about a minute and half between recordings which totally missed the beginning part of the show.  To get around this I have manually set up a recording for every Monday from 5:58 PM to 11:03 PM.  That will be about 15-20 GB I’m sure (recording at “best” quality), but I can then use DVR-Edit to break apart the different shows at the same time I’m removing commercials.  I’ve set up something similiar on Friday nights when Sci-Fi will run the new season episodes of SG1, Atlantis and Battlestar Gallactica.

Tonight my Linksys Media Center Extender should arrive and we’ll see how that works out.