[mythtv-users] [Australian Program Guide Listings - FoxtelMissing]

[Joshua King]

Hello Brian,

On 17/3/05 5:51 PM, "Brian May" <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Have you had any problems with the quality of the data retrieved from
> d1?

If by quality you mean accuracy -- no, if I get data its as valid as a
printed guide (It's by no means as live as an onscreen guide). In terms of
completeness - it's not as rich as it used to be, hasn't been updated with
new channels, sometimes have to fudge the timezones (shouldn't be an issue
at all in Melbourne).
> 
> On some occasions I have noticed the times are completely out (so I
> get the last 30 minutes of the previous show but miss out on the last
> 30 minutes of the show I wanted), on other occasions it gets the wrong
> TV show for a given time slot.

I haven't noticed this. The majority of my recordings are from Foxtel and
these tee up pretty well, the free-to-air ones tend to miss a few minutes.

> Ideally, it would be nice if mythtv could realize that the same input
> data could be used to write both shows. Is this possible?

YES! This is in my wishlist too - myth would automagically connect adjoining
programs into a single physical recording and offer multiple virtual
recordings (mapped by a cutlist like currently implemented) within the
single recording. If one show runs late, you just adjust the dividing point
in the cutlist. Reference counting would need to be used to manage deletes
(attention any devs desperate for ideas?)

> The alternative, that we currently use, is to set each program up to
> "record only this time", so you can manually adjust the end time for
> each time slot. Unfortunately, TV stations seem to swap/change TV
> shows so often that this frequently results in missing a show.

I've also use the global 'record an extra number of seconds' option which
gets ignored if recording string together, or manually scheduling the block
of time instead.

Joshua King