[mythtv] Possible Feature?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:04 pm, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> I think this might have come up before, but here goes anyways.
> Have you ever just wanted to record part of a show and if you record the
> entire thing it conflicts with another scheduled recording?
> Here's the scenario.  I typically only watch the tonight show for the
> first half hour, it usually starts at 11:35pm and ends at 12:35am.
> There's another show that I record regulary at 12:30AM.  Needless to say
> it conflicts and I can only record one.  I guess what I would like is a
> way to manually setup a recording time.  Say manually input 11:35pm -
> 12:00am and then have everything record as expected.
> Too far fetched.  I'm experimenting with the database and so far it
> seems possible, just need to add it to the gui/code.  If no one else is
> working on this and it seems usable to enough folks, I would like to
> take a stab at it.

http://www.snowman.net/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2002-December/002219.html

is in CVS, and does pretty much that, though the UI's not completely finished.  
I'm sure Dan wouldn't mind some help with the UI =)

Isaac