[mythtv-users] Schedule Time Bump for Sports Overtime

[Ken Mandelberg]

I think it would work. The scenario is that you watch for the end of the 
game to see how late it is. Whether you do it manually or automatically 
you have to know that number, In this case it happened to be 74 minutes 
(the game was over at 8:14 est).

You enter 74/8:14/cbs and any cbs program scheduled to start after 8:14 
would get a start/end override of 74 minutes. Any cbs show scheduled to 
record with starting time before 8:14 and ending time after 8:14 would 
get an override end of 74 minutes.

This would err in the direction of too much recording, CBS dropped the 
scheduled 10PM show that would have started at 11:14.

It's not perfect, it wouldn't handle any program that ended before you 
entered the displacement. It wouldn't handle the case where they dropped 
a program in the middle of the schedule. It could cause conflicts if you 
don't have enough tuners.

A 74 minute delay is very unusual. It just seems like it would make the 
case of a few minute delay easier to handle than manually doing the 
adjustment on each subsequent program.



 >I wouldn't think it is possible, completely.  For instance, the Bills
 >game went overtime Sunday, meaning that instead of recording Amazing
 >Race for my wife, I recorded the end of the game and 60 Minutes.  I
 >don't think there's any way to automatically fix that, unless Myth gets
 >smart enough to know which show is currently airing <grin>.

 >Jeff.

Ken Mandelberg wrote:
 > > It's that time a year where football on the east coast throws off the
 > > Sunday CBS schedule. Once the game is over, I manually adjust the
 > > times for any CBS programs that I've scheduled to record that night.
 > >
 > > It would be a lot more convenient to be able to input the displacement
 > > in one spot and have the start/stop times adjusted accordingly.
 > >
 > > Has this ever been discussed?