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A page to help TiVo'ing baseball games
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Posted by: barclay

Here's a simple page for people like me that want to record baseball games. It's point in life is to let you see what inning a game is in without seeing the score. The idea being that when your program is nearly done recording, you can check the page to see if it needs padding.

http://www.scottandmichelle.net/cgi-bin/mlbinnings.pl

You can pick a team to have highlighted by clicking on them. It should refresh and update itself every ten minutes if left open.

Enjoy.

Posted by: turls

Cool idea. Thanks!

Posted by: dd9

I just use the mute button and make sure I don't look at the upper left of the screen. You may have to back up a little, but it's fairly obvious if the game is still running or not and you don't get any 'hints' as to who's winning.

I do, basically, the same thing for Nascar stuff.

Posted by: Senator123

This is an awesome idea. Thanks so much. If only TiVo could include this in its software and automatically make recordings go on.

Posted by: EricRobins

I subscribe to EI. I have noticed that the "slot" for EI games lasts 6 hours. What happends if a game goes longer than 6 hours?

Since MPEG compression really only codes for "updated" pixels, and once a game is completed the EI feed goes completely black, how much space is wasted by the extra recording of the black screen?

Posted by: medley32

Eric,

You answered your own question. The MPEG compression does stop coding if there is no change in the video. So once the game is over and we go to black, the recording stops. At least that's what I've noticed happening with my NBA League Pass Games. So the 6 hour blocks aren't a problem once the game is recorded, but it could cause some problems when attempting to set up the recording on a smaller unit.

Posted by: aindik

quote:
Originally posted by barclay
Here's a simple page for people like me that want to record baseball games. It's point in life is to let you see what inning a game is in without seeing the score. The idea being that when your program is nearly done recording, you can check the page to see if it needs padding.

http://www.scottandmichelle.net/cgi-bin/mlbinnings.pl

You can pick a team to have highlighted by clicking on them. It should refresh and update itself every ten minutes if left open.

Enjoy.

Unfortunately, there's still the possibility of spoilers. As soon as you go onto the site and it tells you that your game is in the 10th inning, the first 9 innings have been spoiled for you, because you know they end in a tie. Perhaps the site could lie for our benefit, and tell us that the game is in the 9th inning, as long as the real inning is 9 or greater.

Posted by: barclay

quote:
Originally posted by aindik
Unfortunately, there's still the possibility of spoilers. As soon as you go onto the site and it tells you that your game is in the 10th inning, the first 9 innings have been spoiled for you, because you know they end in a tie. Perhaps the site could lie for our benefit, and tell us that the game is in the 9th inning, as long as the real inning is 9 or greater.

Problem solved :)

There's now an option to turn off the inning display all together. Now you won't know if it's gone into extra innings, or if the 8th inning was an exceptionally long one. Just if it's still going.

[Fwiw, I didn't do it as you describe since I didn't want people thinking it's broken if a game goes into too many extra innings]