[mythtv] vps/pdc almost there...

[Johan]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 23:50, maestro wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i hope not to bother anyone with my continuous talking about vps/pdc.
> 
> a quick status of my proceedings shows, that i'm now capable of
> receiving the vps signal and delay the start/end of a recording until
> the vps matches. so far so good. 
> 
> BUT today i encountered a constelation which i did't take into account
> so far, mainly because i cannot think of a solution to what seems to be
> a trivial problem:
> 
> stop recording would best be determined if the vps signal is different
> then the one that kicked the recoding off, right?!
> 
> so how to determine when to start a recording.
> it works fine if starttime (from epg) matches vps timecode exactly, but
> i scheduled C.S.I. Miami today which was scheduled for 22:50 in the epg
> but when the show was broadcasted the vps timecode was 22:55 so a simple
> comparrison does not always work. (result the show wasn't recorded at
> all => very bad)
> 
> can anybody help me solving this comparrison problem, or even better is
> anyone familiar how vps is handled in plain old vhs recorders?
> 
> hoping for some answer,
> so long
> maestro


You can find some info about vps/pdc on this site:
http://625.uk.com/pdc/
If I program my vcr I use a code from the program guide that contains
the vps timecode. More info here: http://www.gemstar.co.uk/

br,
Johan