On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Nadine and Henry Laxen wrote:
>I think the VHS tape has a lot of life left in. Right now I have 8
>tapes full of stuff we haven't watch yet (approx 48 hours) and they
>have the great advantage of being easily transportable, from room to
>room and person to person.
Same here, I often have about one month of viewing backlogged...
[should tv_check have a machine-readable output format]
>Tue weekly 1800/60 Channel 387 WIVB JAG
>Tue weekly 1900/30 Channel 385 WGRZ Frasier
>Tue weekly 2030/30 Channel 383 PBS Rough Science
>Tue weekly 2230/30 Channel 379 WGRZ Frasier
>
>The nice think about keeping the data this way is that I can easily
>edit it using Emacs or (insert your favorite editor here). As soon
>as you start using XML, it becomes inconvenient to edit it by hand.
Not sure I agree there, something like
<programme start="200211101800" stop="200211101900" channel="387" />
seems fairly easy to edit also. I didn't mean that all the programme
details should necessarily be included, although they would be
quietly ignored if present.
> Robert> 1. Your requested show as scheduled. (start/length adjusted)
> Robert> 2. What's on in place of your show.
> Robert> 3. Episodes with the same title on at other times.
>
> Robert> Which record types should be output? What about flagging
> Robert> start/length/conflict information? How should that be done?
>
>Thus far, I have found the flagging in TV_CHECK the most helpful.
>I can glance at it looking for the *** and quickly adjust my weekly
>schedule. I find I often have to make decisions that a computer
>cannot make for me. So I would have to answer 1. yes 2. yes and 3
>yes.
I interpreted the question differently, I thought Robert Eden was
asking about what to output to feed directly into the VCR
programmer. In which case you surely don't want (2).
>When a conflict occurs, it is often possible to resolve it by
>switching some programs from east coast to west coast. Often it is
>not obvious how to do this.
Yup, or by deciding to watch one of the shows later in the week when
it will be repeated, or several other ways. It gets more complex if
you have three VCRs, of which one works, one has a broken timer, and
one has no timer or Long Play, and a selection of VHS tapes with
varying amounts of free space. Quite a complex constraints
problem :-).
But I still think that the end result, the data to program the VCR
with, ought to fit into XMLTV format. I mean it's intended to be the
standard format for these things isn't it? And if it's not suitable
for the task then we can change it until it is.
>my VCR program only looks at:
>Tue weekly 2230/30 Channel 379
>everything after that is a comment.
So you wouldn't object to a format that had just those three pieces of
information (start time, length, channel)?
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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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