Instead of setting my recordings to record longer than the scheduled time. Can’t Plex be made aware that the Sports program is going longer than scheduled and continue the recording?
How would you envision that Plex would become aware that the recording is going to run longer? Is the broadcast network going to send a signal that all DVR products would then need to receive and know to extend the recording duration? I personally have never worked with a DVR solution that has had the ability to detect that a sports program has run long and adjust the time for the recording, and adjust future recordings on the same channel. That would be wonderful if it could be done, but have not seen it in any other platforms personally. I still have DirecTV currently, in their DVR I always have to set any shows that are scheduled for after a football game to be extended by 60-90 minutes typically.
I have no idea how it would work I don’t get paid the big bucks to figure that out. But years ago when I used SageTV a community member made a SageTV Plugin called “SageTV Recording Extender” that monitored sports broadcasts for Over Time or extra innings and would tell SageTV to continue the recording longer than the schedule in the EPG.
A long time ago, there was a MythTV script that did that. It was a PHP script that would scrape ESPN’s live scoreboard webpage every few minutes. If it saw that the game you were recording wasn’t final, it would add 5 minutes to the recording. It didn’t last long - ESPN changed the layout of their site and that broke the script.
It would be great if Plex could do something like that. Or if it could see an event going long and update the recording times for all the effected programs after the game.
Things like TiVo and xfinity simply pad 60 minutes to sporting events by default.
Does Plex want to be like TiVo and xfinity or does Plex want to be better?
@Achilles said:
Things like TiVo and xfinity simply pad 60 minutes to sporting events by default.
Sorry I should have better explained the intent of my comment. Plex DVR needs quite a bit of development work still.
It would be easier and quicker at the moment for Plex to default padding by 60 minutes for sporting events. I don’t know how much development is required for a smart real-time monitor, but I would imagine its not trivial. Even if they do agree to develop something along these lines, there are higher priority core function bugs that need to be addressed first.
- 100% Recording stuck bug
- Missed scheduled recordings
- B2B recordings having all sorts of issues
The list is long and I don’t wish to go through it all. The point I want to convey is a feature to extending recording real-time is useless if it doesn’t even record properly.
Schedules Direct offers a feature that will send information to automatically extend your recording if it’s one of the Big Four US leagues and the game is running late. How do they do it? That should give some ideas to anyone else who wants to pull it off.
i just by default pad sports 30 mins and dont usually have any issues. the idea is slick and I admit I would like to see it eventually added but there is already a low tech easy fix and I for one would prefer Grid, Recording by channel and time, Stability, More players modified like the android exo v2 is being modified for native playback. etc
I would also like to setup an automatic padding value for all NFL/College football games. It would be great if Plex would know it’s a live sports game and automatically add 30-60 mins to the end when scheduled to record. I record a few games so it would save me a few minutes every weekend and if I forget Plex has me covered.
Better skipping during “watch from start” option would be welcomed also.
Even just the option to extend a recording that’s in progress would be great. Because unless you have the 2.0 interface, you have to poke around and try to divine which program you need to pick in order to keep recording the program. There’s really almost nothing to go on currently when trying to figure this out on a non-2.0 interface. It will frustrate the heck out of you.
Why Plex doesn’t have a typical grid “guide” interface for over half of it’s clients, I’ll never understand. These are 2 somewhat related issues which seems simple to resolve with a small dash of sanity added to the guide (give us a freaking grid on xbox already!) and DVR.
