[mythtv-users] How to record Shows that are split by the broadcaster

Andrew Herron totallymaxed at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 10:45:04 UTC 2009


John,

Thanks for that. I wonder if anyone is working on extending the handling of
the additional EIT data that is transmitted for this.

All the best

Andrew

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:58 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> Andrew Herron wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here in the UK we often get Movies that are split into two with a short 10
>> minute News show broadcast between the two halves. This happens regularly on
>> Channel 5 here in the UK and I know that this channel broadcasts some
>> extended EIT data that allows UK PVR's to intelligently 'know' that the two
>> halves of the movie are actually one movie ie I select the forst half for a
>> schduled recording and the PVR automatically makes a recording of the part
>> of the movie that is broadcats after the News show.
>>
>> When I attempt this in MythTV 0.21 the 2nd part of the movie is not
>> automatically scheduled for recording. Yes I can make a 2nd recording for
>> the movies 2nd half... but it would be much nicer and have far higher WAF if
>> MythTV handled this situation automatically.
>>
>> Is there a setting somewhere to enable the handling of this type of
>> scenario?
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>  I've been bitten by this too.  It's easy to overlook and automatic
> recognition would be helpful.  Otherwise you can capture it in one recording
> by editing the schedule to end recording late.
>
> John P
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