[mythtv-users] TV schedules that are a minute off
David Brieck Jr.
myth at brieck.com
Wed Jan 14 14:02:17 EST 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> I've noticed a very annoying tendency on some networks (NBC
> is pretty bad,
> for example) to schedule their prime-time shows in the listings as
> starting one minute earlier than the hour. For example,
> instead of being
> listed as being on from 9:00-10:00 pm, "Law & Order" might be
> listed as
> 8:59-10:00.
>
> This is really irritating, because then Myth will not be able
> to record
> anything that ends at 9:00, since the 8:59 show would be a
> conflict for
> that overlapping minute. My question is, is there a facility
> in Myth to
> work around this (ignore the first minute of the 8:59 show,
> maybe)? I was
> planning on modifying mythfilldatabase to offer a flag that would
> round the starting time up for these shows to the nearest
> "on-the-hour"
> mark. Has this already been solved, before I go re-inventing
> the wheel?
>
The solution seems pretty simple. Round times up to the nearest 5
minutes. I think this is probably a xmltv issue. I'd had to look around,
but you could probably accomplish this with a simple SQL query run via a
cron after your mythfilldatabase cron.
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