[mythtv-users] scheduler and sports

[Steve]

I too was wondering about this when I saw that only half of the
Astros-Braves game was recorded for me. I really hope on of these solutions
could be implemented for sports programming.

On 10/12/05, Neil Cronin <mythtv at rackle.com> wrote:
>
> 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<http://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 <http://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
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