[mythtv] New Schedules Direct feature: "is this Sporting Event over"?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Dec 14 16:12:01 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Mashos" <thomas at mashos.com>

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:00 AM Jim <lists at morton.hrcoxmail.com> wrote:
>> From the link -
>>
>> *a sporting event which runs late will not cause a schedule re-generation,
>> because we won't know if the broadcaster is going to shift the starting
>> time for subsequent programs, or just "joined in progress".*
>>
>> I don't know how Myth could know that either.
> 
> You could make it configurable per channel and have the user set it up as
> to what the channel usually does. Give it a sensible default of "Don't
> shift" and it should be fine.

In the Don't Shift case, we don't care.

The only time Myth needs to do something is the Shift case.

Cheers,
-- jra
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