[mythtv] Implementing a New Scheduler type

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

I'm looking to implement a new scheduling type and am
looking for comments, theories on best way to implement it.

The situation. In the UK, and numerous other places, the stations
like showing movies with a 1-5 min news break in the middle. This
would look like the following in the guide data.

A B C

where A is the movie of interest, B is the newsbreak and
C is the rest of the movie.

Now because the program is in two pieces you cannot use a find
one showing schedule type, since you will only get 1/2 a program.

I want to make a new schedule type I'm calling FindOne Disjointed
which would record the show A right through to the ending time of
show C. A bit of extra disk space for a movie with an extra long
bit in the middle to cut out later.

The way I do this know is to pick a specific showing of A and 
set an overrecordtime that gets it to the end of C. Works but
could be improved upon.

Sample movie from the guide data.
+--------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------+
| chanid | starttime           | endtime             | title        |
+--------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------+
|   1006 | 2005-11-16 23:30:00 | 2005-11-17 00:28:00 | Total Recall |
|   1006 | 2005-11-17 00:30:00 | 2005-11-17 01:40:00 | Total Recall |
|   1006 | 2005-11-17 22:00:00 | 2005-11-17 22:58:00 | Total Recall |
|   1006 | 2005-11-17 23:00:00 | 2005-11-18 00:10:00 | Total Recall |
+--------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------+

The logic of assembling these four bits together into two shows is
pretty simple, just what is the best way to weld this into the
scheduler.

Comments & Thoughts?


Stuart