[mythtv] Implementing a New Scheduler type

[Paul Wheeler]

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.

Paul



On 11/15/05, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> 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
>
>
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