[mythtv] Minor Request: Allow ADD cut-point when close to existing cut-point

Brad mythtv at braddolman.com
Mon Jan 3 07:45:10 EST 2005


I'm trying to archive some old football games that I'd like to keep 
around and ran into a small stumbling block with editing the 
cut-points for the file. Football, being what it is, has lots of 
short 20 second commercial breaks between plays. MythTV won't let me 
edit them out, however, because if you try to insert a cut-point 
within 30 seconds of an existing cut-point it only allows you to 
Delete, Move, Flip, or Cancel. Therefore, I can mark the beginning of 
the commercial, but not the end because it is within 30 seconds.

Unless there is a technical limitation which I am not aware of, I 
think it would be useful to allow the user to "Delete Before" and 
"Delete After" when trying to insert a cut-point within 30 seconds of 
an existing cut-point. Certainly, this is applicable to editing 
football - and most likely other sports as well. I think it is also 
reasonable from a user-interface consistency point-of-view as a user 
should be able to delete a clip regardless of if it is less than 30 
seconds long or not.


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