[mythtv-users] Tennis

Jim Reith reith at racores.com
Mon Aug 15 13:25:32 UTC 2005


At 09:18 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:00, Fred Squires wrote:
> > On 8/15/05, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've been doing that so I end up getting 4-5 hour recordings where
> > > > the game ends up being only 3.5 hours long. Is there a simple way
> > > > once they are recorded to prune off the end, after the event is done?
> > >
> > > only by adding a cut list and then transcoding but that generally
> > > makes the video a different format such as MPEG4.
> > >
> > > Whytey
> >
> > Not necessarily, if you simply want to not see it just create a cut
> > point at the end of the match.  The player will then skip anything
> > after the cut point, but you won't save any space that way.
>
>Why not just hit the exit button once the match ends?  I don't think you
>have to sit and watch the entire recording all the way to the end.  :)

Well, the most recent situation was a baseball game I was attending and got
home after the extended recording had finished


>Are you saving these matches after they are watched?  Probably easier to
>watch them and delete them than to schedule additional processing time
>and your time to create an edit list and transcode.

I'm hoping to burn them to DVD to send to my daughter away at school


>I hit a similar problem once, a sports show pushed the start of a movie
>that was to be recorded out by about 30 minutes.  Needless to say the
>end of the movie was not recorded which did not go over to well.  But
>that is the same problem with a standard VCR if you don't know the show
>is being delayed for some reason and there is no way to modify the
>recording schedule.

yep, same issue





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