[mythtv-users] Tennis

[Michael T. Dean]

Ian Campbell wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:18 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>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.
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>:-) Ever since the last five minutes of Hitchcock's Rear Window got cut
>off I've gotten into the habit of fast-forwarding to the end to check
>before we start watching.
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>I can't think of a worse film to miss the end of... we had to go out and
>rent the DVD straight away.
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Yeah.  If I notice that a recording starts X  minutes into the recording 
when it should have started much sooner, I'll check the end and either 
delete it, allowing re-record or watch it (depending on the content and 
whether it looks like the end is "close enough").

I've got to admit, though, that when I'm in TV-watching mode (i.e. brain 
in power-save mode), doing the math to get to the end can be a 
challenge...  OK, let's see.  2 hour 2 minute recording, I'm currently 
at 15 minutes, 12 seconds, so there's about 1 hour 46 minutes left, and 
I want to jump to 5 minutes before the end then use the normal skips to 
see how it ends, so I need 1 hour 41 minutes; then, I have to go 
throught the "units" discussion with myself--Myth takes minutes unless 
it's over an hour, in which case, you can use minutes for up to 99 or 
hours then minutes--so type in 141 then hit right to jump.  Usually 
(without the written notes in an e-mail) about this time I figure out I 
made a mistake with the calculations in my head and start the process 
over.  At least the second time, it gets easier because the numbers are 
smaller.  Hmmm, maybe I should do a patch for jump to X minutes before 
end...

Mike