Annoyances caused by sporting events

[mvallevand]

I am working on a plugin which should help with recording around problems caused because of of a sporting event. My experience is with the North American Eastern time zone so it might differ by event by timezone and by country. The main things that I am considering are

- extending recording time for sporting events that go longer than planned
- changing times on Sunday night prime time tv when the late games goes long
- record baseball double headers separately

I'd like too read your challenges too. Some that come to mind:

- with one tuner early game on one network goes long but the late game on the other network is the one you want to watch. How do I indicate this? Maybe favourite NFL teams?
- only NFL games cause a schedule change
- Monday and Thursday games don't cause me any problem what about in the west?

Martin

[mvallevand]

It look like no one cares about the idea beyond this plugin except me, but just in case, the author of the online service is planning on dropping support for NCAA Div I-AA and lower divisions. http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthre...post515316 I only like the top NCAA teams anyway.

Martin

[BrettB]

It look like no one cares about the idea beyond this plugin except me...

Martin,

I like the idea conceptually. However ideally, I'd like something more generic solution to the problem of unscheduled schedule changes which would cover things like an unplanned Presidential Address or some sort of breaking news event. Something that just supports a very limited number of sporting events is much less appealing to me personally.

[whurlston]

I do. Just been busy.

Sunday is the worst for me with C.S.I. Miami

[mvallevand]

BrettB the solution itself is generic, I pass the title and subtitle and time to the site which monitors events and tells me if the show is active and final. This could apply to any situation but other than sporting events it would be difficult to come up with a reliable scraping solution. A rule would also have to know if the show was pre-empted or delayed and AFAIK only Sunday evenings are reliable messed up with games passing 7:30.

Martin

[smajor]

We would use this. It's one of those things that we'd use rarely, but when it kicks in it'd be pretty sweet.

[johnsonx42]

I never saw the original post about this. I generally have no interest in recording sporting events (to me there's just nothing interesting about watching a game that already happened). However if some means could be found to properly record shows that have been pushed back in their timeslots by a previous live event that went long, that'd be very welcomed.

Actually the sort of live event I do record is awards shows for the wife. She likes to start watching when they're just about over so she can skip through all commercials, the stupid teary speeches and the categories she's not interested in. When it gets to the end where they announce the biggest awards and it cuts off because the NPVR (or GB-PVR before it) decided the tuners ought to go record something else, I get the dirtiest look ever. I have repeatedly advocated making explicitly specified padding on a one-off recording a non-optional part of the recording, or Hard Padding if you will. No one ever seems to understand why I want that, they just say 'well just do a manual recording then'. I frankly can't conceive of why if I go through the trouble of explicitly adding padding to a single recording, that the program would think I don't really mean it.

So yes, if your plugin could succeed where NPVR fails in these two instances, it'd be golden.

[mvallevand]

Johnsox42, my two main goals are to reschedule the evenings properly after a long game and of corse to record entire sports events.

For #2 I think manual recording is the way to go. EPG recordings are already smart and adjust to time start and stop time changes in the guide data each night You could use sed to "fix" the epg source if you have to.

Martin

[roy]

My main annoyance is Sunday night recording The Amazing Race. I just know to include 60 minutes post padding to account for the football overage, but on occasion the padding is not included. Anything to increase program schedule awareness would be very useful.

I record Red Sox games and include 90 mins post padding (120 when it's the Yankees :p), and any sporting event gets at least 60 minutes post padding. Rarely do you need it all, but then you don't want to miss the greatest overtime game ever when the recording ends, just as the ball is in the air.......:eek:

[ElihuRozen]

I recently started scheduling the show after the one I want instead of using padding to handle sporting events. That way, if it doesn't run over & I don't get a chance to watch it till later, I can just delete the extra recording before hand. It also can finish marking commercials earlier, too.