incidentally, is ivtv's lack of embedded vbi due to a hardware issue or
just a driver issue (in other words, if something useful comes of all
this talk, will i have to replace my PVR500 to gain any benefit)?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Freeman</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mlfreeman.org">mythtv@mlfreeman.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The ratings that come with the XMLTV data...are they usually accurate?
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I have a crazy dream of somehow using *something* in the tv datastream
to catch overtime FOX games and *not* record them
automatically.(I have Myth set up to grab Simpsons @ 8, but I have a
whole half hour on the back end as a buffer in case of OT games)<br>
<br>
I know I'm probably talking out of my @$$ here, but if ratings came
with the XMLTV feed, would it be possible for Myth to watch the ratings
and only record when the rating info changed to whatever the program
was supposed to be rated? <br>
My guess is that live football is rating-less, but once the Simpsons
came on, there'd be a rating....and that could be a signal to *save*
the buffer to disk (in my case, I have no qualms about giving Myth 0.75
to 1.5 GB of RAM if need be for something like this).<br>
<br>
<br>
I envision something like this:<br>
@ 8 PM, Myth starts buffering video & rating info to RAM for 2-3
min...if it doesn't see a rating that matches what XMLTV says it
should, it starts dropping the oldest portion of that 2-3 min buffer.<br>
If it does see the rating match, it drops everything up to that point
and starts spooling the mess to disk. It then records for the
original length of time, regardless of whether or not that crosses a
"boundary" (e.g. it records 8:15-8:45 and ignores whatever is
*supposed* to be on at 8:30).<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Michael L. Freeman<div><span class="e" id="q_10850085f328fc53_1"><br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Boleslaw Ciesielski</b> <<a href="mailto:bolek-mythtv@curl.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bolek-mythtv@curl.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Isaac Richards wrote:<br>>>BTW, does Myth read the /dev/vbi output from a PVR-150?<br>><br>> Nope, it needs to have the data in the mpeg stream. myth would have to remux<br>> things, otherwise, and that's slightly more complicated.
<br><br>For the actual CC support, yes. But if we only want to flag commercials<br>and the v-chip method works reliably, we could generate the cutlist<br>while recording. Imagine Live TV with commercial skip...<br><br>But I realize that this may not fit into the general commflag paradigm.
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