[mythtv-users] TV schedules that are a minute off

[David Brieck Jr.]

> -----Original Message-----
> I've noticed a very annoying tendency on some networks (NBC 
> is pretty bad, 
> for example) to schedule their prime-time shows in the listings as 
> starting one minute earlier than the hour.  For example, 
> instead of being 
> listed as being on from 9:00-10:00 pm, "Law & Order" might be 
> listed as 
> 8:59-10:00. 
> 
> This is really irritating, because then Myth will not be able 
> to record 
> anything that ends at 9:00, since the 8:59 show would be a 
> conflict for 
> that overlapping minute.  My question is, is there a facility 
> in Myth to 
> work around this (ignore the first minute of the 8:59 show, 
> maybe)?  I was 
> planning on modifying mythfilldatabase to offer a flag that would 
> round the starting time up for these shows to the nearest 
> "on-the-hour" 
> mark.  Has this already been solved, before I go re-inventing 
> the wheel?
> 

The solution seems pretty simple. Round times up to the nearest 5
minutes. I think this is probably a xmltv issue. I'd had to look around,
but you could probably accomplish this with a simple SQL query run via a
cron after your mythfilldatabase cron.