[mythtv-users] scheduler and sports

[Neil Cronin]

Is anyone open to helping out with the espn.com scraping idea?  Or am
I on my own?

It doesn't seem too hard to do, but hard to test and potentially pretty fragile.

Thanks,
-neil


On 10/13/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> 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
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