[mythtv-users] Long films and news breaks

[Paul Wheeler]

I believe all it needs to be able to cut out the news break is a
single recording option extra. I.e. we have dont record this showing,
record once, record in this timeslot every week etc. We just need to
add a record once with news break option (these breaks are 99% one off
showings) The scheduler then knows to look to see if there is an extra
part of the film after the next 1/2 programs, if it is it does one of
three thigs, depending on how feasable these are:

1) Record whole length of film

2) Record whole length of film and inserts cut points for the news break

3) Records both sections and splices the recordings together.

Obviously no. 3 is the best solution but is prob the hardest to implement.

Paul


On 3/23/06, Alexander Fisher <alexjfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/23/06, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/23/06, Alexander Fisher <alexjfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Some random thoughts ...
> > > Could we use IMDB to look up the run times of all scheduled movies?
> > > Is the offending mid-movie show always news?  Why would it be anything else!?
> > > Two halves of a split showing are often similar lengths.
> > > A repeat showing isn't always exactly the the same length as the first
> > > showing (Jaws 3 is 1hr55 the first time round but only 1hr50 later on)
> >
> > The main problem there is that films are cut and time compressed for
> > TV showing. So what would be a 2hour film is chopped down to 1:30 (Or
> > less) to fit into schedules.
>
> I'm not sure the situation is that bad in the UK at least, but I'm
> becoming less and less convinced that using IMDB would be reliable.
> For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if the first 'half' of a film +
> commercials is occasionally greater than the total run time advertised
> by IMDB.
> Out of interest, does anybody here use the xmltv tv_imdb script to
> augment the radio times data?
>
> Altering the programme data before is enters the database and before
> the scheduler sees it seems the easiest approach to me.  Of course,
> this could never work for EIT listings.
>
> Alex
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