[mythtv-users] scheduler and sports

[Kevin Kuphal]

Steve wrote:

> 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 
> <mailto: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?
>
There is no way to dynamically determine if a particular event is 
running long.  There is an option in SVN (not sure about 0.18.x) that 
will allow the system to automatically record extra time for a category 
of shows (like "Sports event") which is what I regularly use to record 
an extra 30 or 60 minutes to be sure I get the entire game.

Kevin