[mythtv-users] Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events?

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 21:40:17 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why do you assume NBC? The don't broadcast to all the world you know :)
>
> But I think the problems are similar around the world. In NZ TVNZ has
> the rights (not Sky thank heavens) with two channels going pretty much
> all the time except for news (which will all be olympics anyway), and
> one of the channels listing everything as "Beijing 2008 Games Of The
> XXIX Olympiad", with a few more details in the description, but still
> not enough to pin anything down. For example one 3 hour show is "Geoff
> Bryan presents LIVE action from Day One in Beijing, featuring:
> highlights from the Opening Ceremony; Beach Volleyball; Women's
> Basketball (NZ v Malawi); Cycling; and the Men's Road Cycle Race. (G)"
>
> The other channel has specific sports listed but still long blocks, eg
> Mens/Womens Beach Volleyball for 300 mins described as "Men's and
> Women's Prelims" - how the hell do I record just the women's?
>
>
> And many of them have a rider "TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE".
>
> Baaahhhh If you are a serious games watcher just record the whole
> damned lot and leave the water cooler crowd to tell you when the good
> stuff was on.
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This brings up an question I was going to post.  I initially setup the
Olympics to do a channel record (always record on channel NBC-DT...in
my case, the OTA HD NBC out of New York).

What bothered me is that several things weren't set up to record
because myth was interpreting them as previously recorded.  Is this
reliable?  It didn't appear to be, so I've been just setting
everything as a single record.  I know that some things have an actual
episode id from schedules direct.  If however the scheduling logic is
just using title, subtitle, and description, my guess is that it
wouldn't handle this reliably.

Am I assuming correctly?  Frankly I've always meant to get a better
understanding of that "previously recorded" logic.

Tom


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