Is anyone open to helping out with the espn.com scraping idea? Or am I on my own?
It doesn't seem too hard to do, but hard to test and potentially pretty fragile. Thanks, -neil On 10/13/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve wrote: > > > I too was wondering about this when I saw that only half of the > > Astros-Braves game was recorded for me. I really hope on of these > > solutions could be implemented for sports programming. > > > > On 10/12/05, *Neil Cronin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Is there any built-in support for lengthening the duration of sports > > show recordings if it's detected that the show will last longer than > > it's scheduled for (e.g.., extra innings, overtime, etc)? I don't see > > anything in the UI for this in 0.18. I can imagine three ways to do > > this: > > > > - inspect the frames and try to guess if the show is continuing past > > its scheduled end time (hardest, best) > > - write a scheduler plug in that can scrape a site like espn.com > > <http://espn.com> to > > determine if the game is over. (hard, ok solution) > > - write a shell or perl script that is invoked by cron that can > > scrape > > a site like espn.com <http://espn.com> to determine if the game is > > over, and if it's > > still in progress, talk to mythbackend via mythweb to extend the > > recording (easiest, worst solution) > > > > Has anyone already tackled this? Or is there an existing solution? > > > There is no way to dynamically determine if a particular event is > running long. There is an option in SVN (not sure about 0.18.x) that > will allow the system to automatically record extra time for a category > of shows (like "Sports event") which is what I regularly use to record > an extra 30 or 60 minutes to be sure I get the entire game. > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
