[mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

[Greg Woods]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:16 -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:

> For any sort of algorithm proposed to second guess a specific
> situation, there is an opposite example where that exceptional
> decision would do exactly the wrong thing.

The only "perfect" solution would be a way to tell the scheduler exactly
what you want, so it doesn't have to read minds. Such as, an option on
extensions that says, "allow other recordings to override time
extensions". Or something in a record rule that says "extend time only
if it doesn't conflict with another recording on the same channel". My
point was not to criticize the present incarnation of the scheduler, so
I hope you didn't take it that way. Only to point out that there is
currently no way to resolve the type of conflict I run into other than
manually.

--Greg


> 
> If you had three cards, it could record all of them but with two,
> you have to decide what to do at the start of the second game. You
> might decide that one of the later games is boring and you don't
> want to sit through it anyway. You might want to start the second
> game on the same channel late so that the conclusion of the first
> game is in the same file. All it has to go on is that football
> games need to record extra time and there is no one right answer
> if they conflict. However, you know what the right answer for you
> is on this day in this situation. You just need to tell it what
> you prefer by adding an override.
> 
> The other thing that always comes up is that idea that the extra
> time should be optional so the scheduler doesn't have to warn you
> about a conflict to let you know that you need to look and decide.
> In a case like this, that is a bad idea. You want to require the
> extra time because if the show that followed on another channel is
> recorded and no conflict is reported, The game could be truncated
> during the final dramatic drive with no forewarning. If it tells
> you there is a conflict then you can decide how you feel about the
> game and the show on another channel that follows. The silicon
> gates can't know how you feel, they can only know the numbers that
> were entered into the equation.
> 
> --  bjm
> 
> 
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