[mythtv] Implementing a New Scheduler type

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:02:19PM +0000, Paul Wheeler wrote:
> Stuart,
> 
> I too have noticed this problem and would love to see a fix for it.
> One point/feature that would be helpfull and may influence how this is
> programmed. It would be great if the middle section(e.g. news break)
> was given cut points or marked in some way. Such that when playing
> back it automatically skips the news or whatever else is in the break.
> The data for the cutpoints could be found from the scheduler.
> 

I have noticed a tendency for those schedules to be approximate.
When they put in an ad break at about the right time then they
stick the newsbreak afterwards. It's often +-2mins from scheduled.

Stuart

> 
> On 11/15/05, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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