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

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Mon Dec 14 22:15:28 UTC 2015


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> In opposition to your idea of "start at scheduled time, end at scheduled
> time + length of overrun", that might make the least amount of sense. I'm
> not aware of any sporting events that hard end at the specified time, which
> means starting at the scheduled time when we know there is overrun helps 0%
> of the time.

It helps in the case where Schedules Direct is late in delivering the
isComplete flag, and that may not be 0% of the time (no offense
intended to Robert, et al.).  The point is to be conservative, and
over-record, on the assumption that disk is cheap compared to
disappointment.

Eric


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