Timing issues

[nigelf1234]

Recently, I seem to find a lot of programmes on ITV and channel 4 especially that you get near toi the end & it says "this recording has finished" with about 3 or 4 minutes to go. I can't add time on to the recording, so is this a known fault or is there a fix for it?

thanks Nigel

[Midnight_Voice]

@nigelf1234 

Would these by any chance be programmes that are overrunning their scheduled time, as shown by the EPG?

YouView boxes use a system called Accurate Recording, where they rely on time markers sent out by the broadcasters to start and stop the recording.

Works great if programmes overrun, and the broadcaster moves the markers accordingly. Works drains if they don’t - and too often, they don’t 😢

But despite being pleaded with for 12 years to allow padding, given the mounting evidence right from day 1 of Accurate Recording being the most misleading name ever given to a broadcasting feature, YouView have been obdurate that they don’t intend to ever fix this, thereby keeping alive the shrinking band of competing makers of Freeview recorders.

If there is something you care about desperately, record the following programme as well, as those last few minutes will precede the recording of that programme.

Doesn't work well for series recordings, alas.

Take heart also, though, that if you record a BBC programme in IP Mode, the BBC will now play it back to you from the BBC iPlayer,  thus ensuring its completeness, albeit additionally depriving you of its surround sound, if there was any.

(And not just cutting it short, but cutting it right out, if it was never put on iPlayer, or expired off it before you watched the programme)