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bigboi at wackywombats

Apr 28, 2012, 8:37 PM

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Is there a way to pad individual recordings in a recording rule?

I have a rule set to record college lacrosse on ESPNU any time it is on. The games are scheduled to be 2 hours long, but they often go over by a few minutes. They also schedule them such that they are usually back-to-back. What I would like to do is pad the second recording of the day since the first recording for the day will be caught in the second recording, but I can't find a way to do it.

Any ideas? I don't want to go in and hack the database to do this.

Thanks!

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lee295012 at gmail

Apr 29, 2012, 1:30 AM

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Re: Is there a way to pad individual recordings in a recording rule? [In reply to]

General (Advanced) setting in mythfrontend you have a setting for soft
padding where it will continue recording as long as the receiver isn't
needed for another recording.
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Apr 29, 2012, 5:16 AM

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Re: Is there a way to pad individual recordings in a recording rule? [In reply to]

On 04/28/2012 11:37 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
> I have a rule set to record college lacrosse on ESPNU any time it is on. The games are scheduled to be 2 hours long, but they often go over by a few minutes. They also schedule them such that they are usually back-to-back. What I would like to do is pad the second recording of the day since the first recording for the day will be caught in the second recording, but I can't find a way to do it.
>
> Any ideas? I don't want to go in and hack the database to do this.
>

Could use a "Power Recording Rule" using some relatively-advanced date
functions to check for the last "episode" of the day.

Mike
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david at istwok

Apr 29, 2012, 8:35 AM

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Re: Is there a way to pad individual recordings in a recording rule? [In reply to]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:16:15AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/28/2012 11:37 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
> >I have a rule set to record college lacrosse on ESPNU any time it is on. The games are scheduled to be 2 hours long, but they often go over by a few minutes. They also schedule them such that they are usually back-to-back. What I would like to do is pad the second recording of the day since the first recording for the day will be caught in the second recording, but I can't find a way to do it.
> >
> >Any ideas? I don't want to go in and hack the database to do this.
> >
>
> Could use a "Power Recording Rule" using some relatively-advanced
> date functions to check for the last "episode" of the day.

I don't think the query needs to be that complex. The following
(untested) should work. Use "program AS nextprogram" for the join
part and the where part should then be:

program.title = "Lacrosse" AND nextprogram.chanid = program.chanid AND
nextprogram.starttime = program.endtime AND nextprogram.title <> "Lacrosse"

Change the <> to = for the nextprogram.title check to match the games
that have another one following.

David
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Apr 29, 2012, 2:38 PM

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Re: Is there a way to pad individual recordings in a recording rule? [In reply to]

On 04/29/2012 11:35 AM, David Engel wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:16:15AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/28/2012 11:37 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
>>> I have a rule set to record college lacrosse on ESPNU any time it is on. The games are scheduled to be 2 hours long, but they often go over by a few minutes. They also schedule them such that they are usually back-to-back. What I would like to do is pad the second recording of the day since the first recording for the day will be caught in the second recording, but I can't find a way to do it.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? I don't want to go in and hack the database to do this.
>>>
>> Could use a "Power Recording Rule" using some relatively-advanced
>> date functions to check for the last "episode" of the day.
> I don't think the query needs to be that complex. The following
> (untested) should work. Use "program AS nextprogram" for the join
> part and the where part should then be:
>
> program.title = "Lacrosse" AND nextprogram.chanid = program.chanid AND
> nextprogram.starttime = program.endtime AND nextprogram.title<> "Lacrosse"
>
> Change the<> to = for the nextprogram.title check to match the games
> that have another one following.

Nice--much prettier than the date functions.

Mike
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