Record that the stream never emits ENDLIST after full time

The feed switches to a static league slate and keeps serving at full CBR
bitrate. No end marker, and no stall to detect, so neither of the obvious
exit conditions fires. The duration cap is the only stop condition.

Observed on a live match: 116 min recorded, still running 2h04m after
kickoff, stopped manually.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Kyt7QHQvLJtQRuiY4wAqKB
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@@ -109,3 +109,18 @@ do not use it to conclude a token is dead.
yt-dlp reads cookies from a running Firefox. Chrome/Edge lock their cookie DB
while running (yt-dlp issue 7271), and an unattended job cannot close the
browser to read them.
### The stream never ends
After full time the feed switches to a static league slate and keeps serving
indefinitely at full CBR bitrate (~4.7 Mbit/s to encode a still image). There
is no `#EXT-X-ENDLIST`, so ffmpeg never finishes, and there is no stall to
detect either -- from the downloader's point of view it is a healthy live
stream forever.
**A hard duration cap is therefore the only stop condition.** `catcher.py`
passes `ffmpeg_o:-t $DURATION_MIN*60`. Do not remove it; without it an
unattended run fills the disk with a logo.
Observed: 116 min recorded for a 23:00 kickoff, still going at 01:04 and only
stopped manually. Budget ~3.5-4 GB per copy per match at 40 MB/min.