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JustinChase:

--- Quote from: Daydream on November 11, 2011, 05:54:52 am ---This sounds like fun :).

Mark it as season 52 or 2011?

First Aired: 1950 (kind of; are there any tapes?)
Air Day: Sunday every now and then
Air Time: Varies by location
Runtime: Depends if the rains; if it doesn't rain it still depends
Network: Take your pick; it's broadcast or tape delayed in 200 countries
Genre: MotorSport (which is probably not a genre in TV classification)

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I use Season=year (2011 currently), since I wouldn't have any idea what season 40 might be, nor do I have any video of it.  I would kinda like to use 01-xxx for season, to be consistent across all Series, but here, it just doesn't work for me.

Day/time: yes, it's different all throughout the year.  The races are "usually" at 2pm local time, but they have move a few of them to evening (and one night race!), so it's pretty 'random' when looking from a fixed timezone

Runtime: Also varies, but about 3 hours of coverage on the BBC currently, including 45-55 minutes of pre-race coverage.  races are limited to 2 hours.  Rain hardly ever affects the race, nor qualifying.

Also, it's really 2 'events' per weekend.  Qualifying on Saturday, Race on Sunday.

I just don't see how this can be put into a 'standard' box; but I'm VERY unfamiliar with TVDb, so ?

I see in the Wiki that they want a show ID from tv.com, which actually shows up as "Formula One", but does not show an ID in the url, as the wiki indicates.

It could pull the dates/times of the races and qualifying from http://www.formula1.com/races/calendar.html, but I have no idea how to make that happen.

I'd like to get this setup, so that SickBeard would grab the videos for me automatically, but I'm not sure the several hours I'd have to spend would be worth it, eventually maybe, if it worked well when finished.

Here is the 'cover' I made, in case anyone else feels motivated do anything with any of this :)

Daydream:

--- Quote from: JustinChase on November 11, 2011, 09:32:12 am ---I just don't see how this can be put into a 'standard' box; but I'm VERY unfamiliar with TVDb, so ?

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It stands to reason that if there was a way, the XBMC crowd would've populated it by now.
There is some custom work done for the races artwork. I'll post it here once I get home tonight.

Daydream:
This is what I was talking about. Credit goes to somebody on the XBMC forums that I'm too tired right now to look him up. I just changed the images towards a contrasty white background.



And please don't tell me anything about the championship, I haven't watched it since August and, as I DL everything am planning to catch up this week.

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