[mythtv-users] negative values in end late?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/10/2007 02:10 PM, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 09/08/07, Robert Current <robert.current at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I was just poking around, I guess I'll see what happens tonight when
>>> it records, but...
>>>
>>> I was thinking that recording the monologue only on the Tonight Show
>>> or Late Night might be interesting.
>>>
>>> So, I've stuck a -40 value in the end late box.  The show being 60
>>> minutes, and I'm doing the opposite of ending late (ending early) so I
>>> used a negative value.  Hoping to get just the first 20 minutes of the
>>> show.
>>>
>>> I did check what documents I could, didn't see it, thought I'd ask if
>>> anyone else does it?
>>>       
>> This should work - I frequently do it to lose the last minute or two
>> of adverts on commercial  channels.
> It should work.  I used to a similar thing with the start early in
> order to skip the recaps at the beginning of some reality shows.

And it's the proper way to fix conflicts when you want "most" of one
show and all of another.

Mike