[mythtv-users] How to record Shows that are split by the broadcaster

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Mon Jul 20 07:58:47 UTC 2009


Andrew Herron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here in the UK we often get Movies that are split into two with a short 
> 10 minute News show broadcast between the two halves. This happens 
> regularly on Channel 5 here in the UK and I know that this channel 
> broadcasts some extended EIT data that allows UK PVR's to intelligently 
> 'know' that the two halves of the movie are actually one movie ie I 
> select the forst half for a schduled recording and the PVR automatically 
> makes a recording of the part of the movie that is broadcats after the 
> News show.
> 
> When I attempt this in MythTV 0.21 the 2nd part of the movie is not 
> automatically scheduled for recording. Yes I can make a 2nd recording 
> for the movies 2nd half... but it would be much nicer and have far 
> higher WAF if MythTV handled this situation automatically.
> 
> Is there a setting somewhere to enable the handling of this type of 
> scenario?
> 
> All the best
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
I've been bitten by this too.  It's easy to overlook and automatic 
recognition would be helpful.  Otherwise you can capture it in one 
recording by editing the schedule to end recording late.

John P


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