[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #255: Improved scheduling of consecutive programs with pre-roll/overrecord

[Kevin Kuphal]

MythTV wrote:

>#255: Improved scheduling of consecutive programs with pre-roll/overrecord
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> Reporter:  Max Barry <mythtv at maxbarry.com>  |       Owner:  ijr 
>     Type:  patch                            |      Status:  new 
> Priority:  minor                            |   Milestone:      
>Component:  mythtv                           |     Version:  head
> Severity:  medium                           |         Cc:                                   |  
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> Hello devs,
>
> Attached is a patch to improve MythTV's scheduling of consecutive
> programs. It's meant to help users in areas where TV stations tend not to
> broadcast shows at the advertised time (e.g. Australians), and who try to
> compensate for this with the global overrecord setting.
>
>  
>
If you have any inclination while you are poking around in this code, I 
would *love* if the scheduler could compensate for shows that are 
scheduled to stop X minutes off the hour.  For example, ABC likes to run 
'Lost' until 9:05pm which, on a one tuner system, bumps the next show.  
It would be great if the scheduler could know that the show runs X 
minutes long and it is within the threshold the user sets and this would 
result in the bumped show being recorded X minutes late rather than not 
recorded or recorded late.

Just a thought,
Kevin