[mythtv-users] Schedule Time Bump for Sports Overtime

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, and I still don't know how the software would know that one of the
>> previous "shows" was really a game so that it would know it needed to do all
>> of that.
>>
>
> I do not think this could ever work without human intervention or the
> sharing of schedule information that was created by some other mythtv
> user. There are too many variables. I mean after the game ends how
> long will the network take to wrap it up. After the wrap up how long
> will the commercial break be to the first program ... If it is 75
> minutes behind is the network guaranteed to not just skip the 1 hour
> show that was scheduled after the game or can we see a show in
> progress ...
>

Also at some point they have to drop a show, or everything will be
late from here until eternity. How is myth supposed to know what has
been dropped? Or to put it another way, how does myth know when the
schedule is back to that advertised?