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

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:12 AM Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

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> > 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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Correct, in the "Don't Shift" case, we don't care. So your sensible default
is "Do nothing different". Just because it's what we already do doesn't
mean it wouldn't be considered the default if there are multiple options.
-- 
Thomas Mashos
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