Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 06 May 2018 12:28:29 +0200 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
I don't know if you have this - on British telly, a couple of years ago, they started adding a 10min break into movies, right in the middle. Some blurb about the latest movie news or whatever. This means a movie will now have two sections, the first and the last. In the EPG, the two sections are the same - title, subtitle, description. This genuinely screws up a lot recordings.
That's what noad is for. I think it should also detect those breaks (it looks for things like station logo vanishing, volume level changes, IIRC also changes of aspect ratio). Or do you really mean two different EPG entries where only one would be recorded?
Yes, it's two separate EPG entries, with a third in the middle. What normally happens is that I get two recordings - #1 on the regular channel, #2 on the +1h channel. Never the 2nd half :-( I am certain it's being done precisely to upset recorders.
It doesn't cause any problem for standard UK DVRs using Youview or whatever. Maybe they have special-case logic or something but ours just records the two halves automatically as separate recordings.
Aha, so maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel. I do expect MythTV to have aught up with this, it's just me being back-level.
AIUI, mythtv uses xmltv for its EPG-related functions?
uh, I don't know. I have always assumed it got the EPG over-the-air, then complemented it <somehow>. For instance, you record an episode of <favourite-show>. Later it has "S3Ep9" appended to the description.
I just installed that and played with it, but tv_grab_uk_bleb doesn't even grab all the freeview channels! It misses pick and some others (probably a whole multiplex, I haven't checked). So does mythtv have some other method of choosing recordings for pick?
I honestly don't know. I don't use xmltv for anything. Maybe I should. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org