On 6/27/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple years ago I decided to record a bit of the Tour day > Lance to see what all the fuss was about. I'm now hooked on > this very tactical sport. Beginning this weekend, Lance Armstrong > will be going after his unprecedented seventh straight win in > the last race of his career. Once again the Outdoor Life Network > will have something like live coverage of the entire race. All > you have to do is wake up by 5:30am PDT and stare at the TV for > six hours every day for a month... or use a DVR to fast forward > through it at your own pace. > > OLN has a long version early in the morning where they start off > delayed and have compressed highlights of the early hours then > catch up with live events or something like that. They then edit > it down to a shorter version and repeat the short version four or > five times per day. OLN essentially becomes the Tour de France > channel during July. > > For each stage/day the same subtitle and description is used for > the live and edited version but the live versions have different > programids than the replays. This means that if you set a Channel > or All record rule, you would get the long plus one short version > each day. This suggests two strategies; get all of the live or > flexibly grab any one of the replays. > > To get the live versions only, go to the Custom Record page and > create a rule like this: > > program.title = "Bicycle Racing" > AND HOUR(program.starttime) < 8 > > For EDT, change the 8 to 11 (other timezones should know what to do =). > You can cut'n'paste this or create it with "Match an exact title" > and "Not in primetime" then edit. Either way, click the "Record" > button to set options. > > As I recall the live versions can sometimes run over so it's > probably a good idea to add an extra half hour or so. You may also > want to use a lower resolution recording profile because the image > quality from an antenna on a moving motorcycle with a hand held > camera from half way around the world isn't exactly IMAX. > > The other approach would be to change the "<" to ">" which will > then choose from any of the edited rebroadcasts. In that case, > you shouldn't need extra time on the end and should probably set > the priority very low so the scheduler can choose a showing that > doesn't conflict with anything else. > > -- bjm > > _______________________________________________
I demand IMAX quality from my sanyo video phone... ;) Thanks for this heads up/suggestion! _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
