[mythtv-users] Long films and news breaks

[Warren]

Ant Daniel wrote:
> On 23/03/06, Alexander Fisher <alexjfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The biggest problem is spotting
>> that there was a news break in the first place!
>>
>> Alex
>>     
>
> Agree, with that one, the amount of times I've missed the second half
> of a movie.
>
> I wonder if we could patch the scheduler to work around it.
>
> In the schedule it would come up as:
> 'Movie Title'
> 'New or some such'
> 'Movie Title'
>
> Usually the second part of the movie doesn't get recorded as the
> schedular marks it as a repeat of the first half. As the tv_grab_uk_rt
> usually marks it as a film, and how many times does a channel show the
> same movie within 1hr of the first one finishing (This is ignoring the
> fact that one or both parts are not really movie 'length' [or usually
> even the same length]).
>
> So could the scheduler be changed to say, oh that's the same movie on
> the same channel within a certain time period of each other (and some
> times of different lengths) so I'll put them into one recording.
>
> Ant.
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We have channels on cable here in the US that do exactly that.  Show a
movie then show it again, either immediately afterward or within an hour
of it ending, so that it ends up being shown during prime-time on both
the east and west coast, which are 3 hours apart.


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