[mythtv-users] Timeshifted channels

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 10:30:23 UTC 2010


On 11 June 2010 10:57, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 8 Jun 2010, at 10:14, Nick Morrott wrote:
>
>> On 8 June 2010 08:57, Jay <alchamist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there any way to improve the duplicate detection or prevent this from
>>> happening? I don't want to set it to record on only one channel, as quite
>>> often programs are split across any of a broadcasters channels - e.g. C4,
>>> More4, E4 etc - and obviously the timeshifted channel is sometimes handy to
>>> avoid recording conflicts.
>>
>> Please check the XMLTV ID for more4 +1 you are using. To use the
>> regular more4 data but with programme timings shifted forwards an
>> hour, you should be using an ID of 'tsod.plus-1.more4.channel4.com' in
>> the MythTV database and in your XMLTV config file for your video
>> source.
>
> Sorry to jump in here but I see the same problem at times, I've just put up with it so far.
>
> I'm a little concerned about using a programatically shifted version of the original channel, there are often instances where the broadcaster does not have the rights to make an extra broadcast so the +1 contains only an apology graphic, I'd rather MythTV didn't decide to schedule one of those for recording! I believe this is why there are often "official" IDs for +1 channels as they can be different.

Andre,

(really a question for the XMLTV lists)

Thanks for the information - can you say whether it happens on
particular +x channels more than others? I'm guessing (I've never had
the problem you mention, but have benefitted from the improved dupe
detection and scheduling flexibility) that it is movie or sports
events that may cause this due to the broadcaster only having the
broadcast rights for the regular channel.

There's no technical reason that a configuration option to choose
between the RT-provided +x listings and programmatically creating them
based on the regular +0 listings could not be added. It should also be
possible for the grabber to download both versions, try to determine
where the listings are different, and produce listings that are as
close to the +0 listings as possible, but not include that programming
which is not available on the +x channel. That would be the best of
both worlds.

Cheers,
Nick

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