[mythtv-users] record live/first showing of sports?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/07/2011 11:05 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:30 AM, David Engel wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:25:38PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 06/06/2011 09:17 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>> Has anyone figured out a way to get Myth to record the live showing of
>>>> a sports event instead of a later repeat?
>>> See the "First showing of each episode" example clause in the
>>> mythfrontend custom recording rule editor.
>> You can also do that for normal recording rules by setting the
>> location to look for duplicates to "Record new episode first
>> showings".
>>
>> Yes, it's a major kluge the new episodes and first showing options
>> were shoehorned in that way.  It's in the process of being fixed.
> sadly this doesn't work, I have all my sports set to that and Myth
> still insists on recording a repeat showing instead of the original
> airing.
>
> this setting works great for tv series were reruns are aired on the
> same or other channels. But, even for those, if a new episode is being
> repeat later that night or the next day it will sometimes schedule the
> secondary airing as well.
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to say, "yes, I know this will re-air
> two hours later and that would allow you to record more scheduled
> shows, but I insist that this show record the original, and first,
> airing even if it means other shows will not be recorded.". A "Sports"
> mode option so to speak.

I'm not sure why this would be.  The first-showing SQL looks like it 
should only mark one airing with a given programid as a first showing.

If you truly want the /first/, first episode, I think you can disable 
the setting:

Reschedule higher priorities
Move higher priority programs to other cards and showings when resolving 
conflicts. This can be used to record lower priority programs that would 
otherwise not be recorded, but risks missing a higher priority program 
if the schedule changes.

and, assuming you're not using (evil :) channel and input priorities, 
MythTV will record the first, first showing.  However, this will  affect 
all rules.

> I don't see "Record new episode first showings" as a recording option.
> I'm running 0.24-fixes, perhaps this was added in trunk?

No.  I'm guessing you're using MythWeb instead of mythfrontend to create 
the rule.  MythWeb broke it out as a "Filter" rather than as part of the 
"Check for duplicates in" setting.

> Priority level also has no bearing on the logic that decides.

Also because of your having "Reschedule higher priorities" enabled (it 
is enabled by default, too).

Can't think of a better way, off the top of my head, without doing 
something difficult like a complex join in a custom rule (complex 
enough, I'm not even sure how to do it) to allow you to see when other 
showings of that title occur on the same day.  I'm still wondering why 
you have multiple showings with the same programid marked as first 
episodes, though.  (Can't see any way that could happen unless your 
mythfilldatabase run isn't completing properly and showing the line, 
"Marking episode first showings," but maybe David has some ideas...)

Mike