[mythtv-users] Myth Recording Extender (MRE) v1.0.0 Released

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 20, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Andrew Casper wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Derek Battams wrote:
>
>> Quoting Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On 8/14/06, Derek Battams <derek at battams.ca> wrote:
>>>> What is MRE?  MRE is a PHP5 application that will monitor (certain)
>>>> active recordings and automatically extend the length of the
>>>> recording
>>>
>>> Out of interest...
>>>
>>> How does it work?
>>> How can it detect that a show is still running ?
>>> JY
>>
>> By parsing web pages that contain (near) realtime updates about the
>> event being monitored.  For the 4 major sports that it currently
>> supports (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA), I simply parse the live scoreboard
>> pages at ESPN.com.  During the last 30 minutes of the scheduled
>> recording time MRE reads and parses the scoreboard page every 5
>> minutes.  If the game ends early MRE can optionally stop the  
>> recording
>> early, if MRE detects the game is running late then it will extend  
>> the
>> recording until it detects the game is over.
>>
>> Naturally, live sports recordings are the motivation behind this, but
>> it's not limited just to sports.  Anything that can be monitored via
>> the web can be used to control the recording time of a program.  Off
>> the top of my head, live awards shows could be monitored and extended
>> if there were a way to get the status of the show on the web during
>> the broadcast (don't the Oscars always run late?).  I doubt there's a
>> web source one could monitor for this, but it's just another example
>> of the possibilities.
>>
>>    - Derek

Just out of curiosity, is there any other interesting information on  
this page you're parsing that someone might want to know that isn't  
already on the screen? Since you're parsing the page anyway, it would  
be cool to use mythosd to take some of the info you're parsing and  
scroll it across the bottom. Just a thought...