[mythtv-users] scheduler and sports

[Neil Cronin]

Is there any built-in support for lengthening the duration of sports
show recordings if it's detected that the show will last longer than
it's scheduled for (e.g.., extra innings, overtime, etc)?  I don't see
anything in the UI for this in 0.18.  I can imagine three ways to do
this:

- inspect the frames and try to guess if the show is continuing past
its scheduled end time (hardest, best)
- write a scheduler plug in that can scrape a site like espn.com to
determine if the game is over. (hard, ok solution)
- write a shell or perl script that is invoked by cron that can scrape
a site like espn.com to determine if the game is over, and if it's
still in progress, talk to mythbackend via mythweb to extend the
recording (easiest, worst solution)

Has anyone already tackled this?  Or is there an existing solution?

Thanks,
Neil