[mythtv-commits] Ticket #8580: Add a Demo Tuner type

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#8580: Add a Demo Tuner type
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 Reporter:  johnnyj <johnnyjboss@…>          |       Owner:  ijr       
     Type:  enhancement                      |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  minor                            |   Milestone:  unknown   
Component:  MythTV - General                 |     Version:  Trunk Head
 Severity:  medium                           |     Mlocked:  0         
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 This patch will add a Demo Tuner that can be used to simulate a tuner when
 a physical tuner is not present. I wrote this because I mainly develop on
 a laptop and I don't have extra tuner hardware handy. I know that this
 functionality can be achieved by inserting things into the mysql and using
 the MPEG tuner with file:/ appended to a file path. What I've done is to
 make it as easy of entering the path to the file (now without the file:/)
 on the Demo Tuner type. My hope is that this will shorten the time to
 start development for other new MythTv developers. (and wannabe's like
 myself) I also imagine this could be used to include a small or
 informative demo video with MythTv derivative Live Cd image. In this way a
 'working' tuner could be present out of the box.

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