On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:02:19PM +0000, Paul Wheeler wrote: > Stuart, > > I too have noticed this problem and would love to see a fix for it. > One point/feature that would be helpfull and may influence how this is > programmed. It would be great if the middle section(e.g. news break) > was given cut points or marked in some way. Such that when playing > back it automatically skips the news or whatever else is in the break. > The data for the cutpoints could be found from the scheduler. >
I have noticed a tendency for those schedules to be approximate. When they put in an ad break at about the right time then they stick the newsbreak afterwards. It's often +-2mins from scheduled. Stuart > > On 11/15/05, Stuart Auchterlonie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm looking to implement a new scheduling type and am > > looking for comments, theories on best way to implement it. > > > > The situation. In the UK, and numerous other places, the stations > > like showing movies with a 1-5 min news break in the middle. This > > would look like the following in the guide data. > > > > A B C > > > > where A is the movie of interest, B is the newsbreak and > > C is the rest of the movie. > > > > Now because the program is in two pieces you cannot use a find > > one showing schedule type, since you will only get 1/2 a program. > > > > I want to make a new schedule type I'm calling FindOne Disjointed > > which would record the show A right through to the ending time of > > show C. A bit of extra disk space for a movie with an extra long > > bit in the middle to cut out later. > > > > The way I do this know is to pick a specific showing of A and > > set an overrecordtime that gets it to the end of C. Works but > > could be improved upon. > > > > Sample movie from the guide data. > > +--------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------+ > > | chanid | starttime | endtime | title | > > +--------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------+ > > | 1006 | 2005-11-16 23:30:00 | 2005-11-17 00:28:00 | Total Recall | > > | 1006 | 2005-11-17 00:30:00 | 2005-11-17 01:40:00 | Total Recall | > > | 1006 | 2005-11-17 22:00:00 | 2005-11-17 22:58:00 | Total Recall | > > | 1006 | 2005-11-17 23:00:00 | 2005-11-18 00:10:00 | Total Recall | > > +--------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------+ > > > > The logic of assembling these four bits together into two shows is > > pretty simple, just what is the best way to weld this into the > > scheduler. > > > > Comments & Thoughts? > > > > > > Stuart > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
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