On 12/21/05, Michael Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
The ratings that come with the XMLTV data...are they usually accurate?
I have a crazy dream of somehow using *something* in the tv datastream to catch overtime FOX games and *not* record them automatically.(I have Myth set up to grab Simpsons @ 8, but I have a whole half hour on the back end as a buffer in case of OT games)
I know I'm probably talking out of my @$$ here, but if ratings came with the XMLTV feed, would it be possible for Myth to watch the ratings and only record when the rating info changed to whatever the program was supposed to be rated?
My guess is that live football is rating-less, but once the Simpsons came on, there'd be a rating....and that could be a signal to *save* the buffer to disk (in my case, I have no qualms about giving Myth 0.75 to 1.5 GB of RAM if need be for something like this).
I envision something like this:
@ 8 PM, Myth starts buffering video & rating info to RAM for 2-3 min...if it doesn't see a rating that matches what XMLTV says it should, it starts dropping the oldest portion of that 2-3 min buffer.
If it does see the rating match, it drops everything up to that point and starts spooling the mess to disk. It then records for the original length of time, regardless of whether or not that crosses a "boundary" (e.g. it records 8:15-8:45 and ignores whatever is *supposed* to be on at 8:30).
Thanks,
Michael L. Freeman
On 12/21/05, Boleslaw Ciesielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Isaac Richards wrote:
>>BTW, does Myth read the /dev/vbi output from a PVR-150?
>
> Nope, it needs to have the data in the mpeg stream. myth would have to remux
> things, otherwise, and that's slightly more complicated.
For the actual CC support, yes. But if we only want to flag commercials
and the v-chip method works reliably, we could generate the cutlist
while recording. Imagine Live TV with commercial skip...
But I realize that this may not fit into the general commflag paradigm.
Bolek
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