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This has been requested before. [[https://tvheadend.org/issues/874#change-21868]]
But, although it was marked as fixed, it seems it is fixed only in the sense that it does not cause a crash, it does not appear that the feature is actually working.
In recording profiles, it is not possible to enter a negative value, and a negative value in the channel config or individual recording does not seem to work.
If the feature is implemented, I would hope that it can be set in the recording profile and the individual recording setting as well as the channel config, since it may not be something one wants to always occur. For me there are sometimes only certain recordings where a negative value would be helpful.

Joe User wrote:

This has been requested before. [[https://tvheadend.org/issues/874#change-21868]]
But, although it was marked as fixed, it seems it is fixed only in the sense that it does not cause a crash, it does not appear that the feature is actually working.
In recording profiles, it is not possible to enter a negative value, and a negative value in the channel config or individual recording does not seem to work.
If the feature is implemented, I would hope that it can be set in the recording profile and the individual recording setting as well as the channel config, since it may not be something one wants to always occur. For me there are sometimes only certain recordings where a negative value would be helpful.

oh yeah. i didn't know you can adjust that in the channel settings. I tried and yeah, it does not work either. There must be other internal logic to reject negative values.

anyway, i would think this feature is really helpful especially for online IPTV users, because most channels are mostly delayed. I have channel that delayed for 4 minutes, so delay both start and stop time will make sense.

I even think that I can move the entire epg time 4 minutes later.. or move the server time 4 minutes? I couldn't see options to change the tvh system time..

Have you tried using the "Use EPG running state" option? If it is included in your streams, it should match the content regardless of the real time.

If you want minutes added to the end you should have a positive value and you will have the whole recording.
The only thing that happens is that you will have a few minutes extra in the beginning so try a 0 value there.

Also be sure to have "Restart on error" setting enabled and maybe "Timeout" setting to something like 10 seconds.
Otherwise record will stop recording if stream timeouts, start buffering etc.

For EPG i opened earlier a feature request to support timeshift so you could add 1 hour to +1 channels for example and tvg-shift="" in m3u file.
Then it would be possible to add or remove time for that channel in m3u file.

I forgot to mention i talked about 2nd recording should not stop after a few minutes there.
If recordings is overlapping it's harder ofcourse.
For now you could manually change the 2nd recordings starttime with a few minutes in.