[mythtv-users] Possible to "fix" data from zap2it?

[Harold Brown]

On 1/20/06, Michael Norman <mwnorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The last few times I've tried to schedule "Commander in Chief", I have had
> conflicts that do not make sense. After a little bit of digging, I
> realized that
> the problem is that the data from zap2it reports that the episode is 61
> mins
> long (09:59 -> 11:00 pm). This means that I can't schedule a 1 hr show
> before it because - naturally - the 1 hr show doesn't "fit" into the 59
> min timeslot.
>
> I have temporarily fixed it by putting a "-1" in the "record early" field,
> but I
> was wondering if we could add a global feature that "fixes" such data from
> zap2it -
> a "round to the nearest hour" (or round to the nearest half-hour for 31
> min
> shows)?
>
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But that data isn't wrong.  The shows are actually scheduled for 61
minutes...  The networks started doing that because of PVR / DVR / TiVo like
devices.
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