[mythtv-users] Scheduling dilemma

[Kevin Kuphal]

Greg Stark wrote:
> I tried to program mythtv to record World Cup matches since I often don't wake
> up in time to catch the start of the games. (Those Europeans sure are morning
> people!)
>
> But I can't seem to find a way to indicate to mythtv that I really really want
> it to record the earliest possible showing of a game. Even if there's a later
> showing it could grab with the better capture card or that generates fewer
> conflicts with lower priority shows.
>
> The situation is that there appear to be three timeslots in the morning when
> live games are played, and often there are two games at the same time. I
> receive two channels that show games in those timeslots. Sometimes it's one
> channel, sometimes the other, and if there are two games usually they'll each
> show one. Then they reshow the games in the evening with the half-time cut
> out. I have two capture cards though so I can capture them both live.
>
> The best I can come up with is to mark the three typical time slots as "Record
> in this timeslot every day". That way at least it doesn't catch the reshowings
> that are much later in the day.
>
> However it still missed today's US vs Ghana match because even though it was
> on one channel live it was shown on another channel in the next regular time
> slot after the Italy vs Czech game.
>
> What I need is a "only record earliest possible showing" option.
>
>   
In addition to the suggestion for enabling Reschedule higher priority 
items, you can always go into the frontend and set overrides for each 
showing to ensure that it records the showings you want.  Just do this 
once every two weeks while the cup is running and you can fix your 
schedule the way you want.

Kevin