[mythtv] EIT updates for in-progress recordings

[Ian Armstrong]

On Thursday 24 June 2010, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 24/06/10 13:45, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Last night the BBC's coverage of "Wimbledon 2010" overran due to
> > coverage of a record breaking tennis match.
> > 
> > The EIT was updated several times, changing the start and end of the
> > following programme - "Today at Wimbledon".
> > 
> > Both programmes were set to be recorded, and I ended up with 1
> > recording of "Wimbledon 2010" and 9 recordings of various parts of
> > what should have been "Today at Wimbledon".
> > 
> > I was watching the programme live, so was able to stop the duplicate
> > recordings, but had to keep switching to a different recording when
> > the one I was watching stopped recording.  It might have been easier
> > to switch to Live TV.
> > 
> > I'm using MythTV 0.23-fixes.
> > 
> > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7369 describes similar behaviour
> > with MythTV 0.21, but the ticket was closed as being a rare case.
> > 
> > Is anyone else affected by this misbehaviour?

I saw a similar thing a few weeks back when a live broadcast overran. There 
were multiple eit updates that seemed to confuse MythTV (0.23-fixes).

> > 
> > Would it be difficult for MythTV to just make one long recording?
> > 
> > --
> > Malcolm Parsons
> 
> My recording on BBC2 started and stopped at the originally programmed
> times - ie from 2058 to 2208, but the programme didn't start till 2130
> and I lost the ending.  The EIT data that I see now shows the new start
> time of 2130, but I don't know when it changed.  Also 0.23-fixes.

I know when I called up the epg a little after 9pm it showed 'Wimbledon 2010', 
and it was due to go off at 9:30.

-- 
Ian