derek at battams
Aug 14, 2006, 9:14 AM
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Re: Myth Recording Extender (MRE) v1.0.0 Released
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Quoting Daniel Walton <dwalton [at] cisco>:
> This tool is a great idea! Questions/comments:
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> - For NFL preseason support is adding the following to
> EventFactory.php the only
> required change:
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> case 'NFL Preseason Football':
> $obj = new NFLEvent($data['subtitle']); break;
Yes, adding to the case statement is all that's needed to support
preseason games.
WARNING!! I didn't add support for preseason games because NFL Network
is showing preseason games on a tape delay. If the game is shown on
the same day it was played on tape delay then MRE will prematurely
detect that the game is over and you'll miss the last ~30 minutes of
the game. If you're only going to be recording live preseason games
on the networks then you should be fine or you can disable MRE from
ending recordings early even if it detects the event its monitoring
ended early (i.e. only allow MRE to extend recordings beyond the
scheduled time, never allow it to shorten a recording).
> - How forgiving are the team matches when comparing the "X vs Y" in
> the channel
> guide vs the "X vs Y" from the espn pages? In other words if I tell myth to
> record the "Carolina Panthers vs NY Giants" but espn.com has it as "Carolina
> Panthers vs New York Giants" or "Carolina Panthers vs N.Y. Giants" will MRE
> figure out that this is the same game?
It should figure it out with no issues. The .dat file for each type
of event lists the terms that ESPN.com uses to identify teams. To
date, MRE has not failed me in mapping the TV listings description of
the game to that used by ESPN.com.
>
> - any plans to add this functionality to mythbackend or to mythweb?
>
Not at the moment, I think this is best used as a standalone daemon,
though actually integrating this functionality into the backend would
be interesting.
> - Say I'm going to record the 1pm and 4pm NFL games on the same
> channel. If the
> 1pm game runs over will MRE recognize that it doesn't need to change anything
> since I'm recording the following program on that channel?
No. It will extend the recording of the 1pm game until it detects
it's over. If you have more than one tuner with the 4pm game
available then the Myth scheduler should move the 4pm game to an
available tuner. If you only have one tuner available for both games
then the 4pm game will likely be listed as a conflict (iff the 1pm
game is extended). This is theory, I've never actually faced this
condition. I only record games involving my favourite teams so I've
never actually recorded back to back live events that were being
monitored by MRE before.
> - Assume I have one tuner and I want to record the 1pm NFL game on
> FOX and the
> 4pm NFL game on CBS. If the 1pm NFL game runs over by 15 minutes
> MRE will tell
> myth to record FOX until 4:15? Will MRE also tell myth to not
> bother recording
> the CBS game until 4:15 or will the 4pm CBS game not record at all
> because there
> was a conflict?
As above, I speak in theory because I've never faced this situation.
For sure, I can tell you that the 1pm game will record until 4:15.
It's been awhile, but last time I traced through the scheduler code I
believe an active recording always wins and won't be stopped, so
definitely the 1pm game will go to 4:15. Sometime between 3:55-4:00
MRE will detect the game is running late and tell Myth to extend the
recording. At that time, Myth should mark the 4pm game as a conflict
and it won't record it. When the tuner becomes available at 4:15 Myth
may or may not start recording the program that was previously marked
a conflict (I'm 99% sure it won't do that, but it may, I'd assume it
won't). All those decisions are left to the Myth scheduler. MRE only
interacts with a recording it is monitoring by updating the post-roll
values for the recording.
> - If espn.com changes their page format and MRE can no longer parse
> espn pages
> will MRE extend a recording by some default amount just as a safety net?
No. However, I run a regression test every day for all event
monitors. The results are posted to a project mailing list (subscribe
on project site). Anytime a failure is detected I get a notice. If
the failure is unexpected the event monitor is updated and a new
release of MRE would occur. Hasn't happened yet, but, of course, it
will - probably during ESPN's annual site redesign. Unless they do
something totally wild and crazy, I'm usually able to whip up a parser
in 20 minutes or less. The default action of MRE is to do nothing if
it cannot attach a valid event monitor to a recording.
- Derek
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