[mythtv] policy on using 'VERBOSE' in myth

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Sat Aug 23 20:42:27 EDT 2003


I personally would like to see some form of verbose or debugging levels.
When I added the auto-expire messages I was thinking about that since
it was either an all or nothing scenario, either all messages or none.
I didn't want to make the messages display all the time so I used VERBOSE.

> I just noticed that mythbackend only tells me about expiring a program
> when I use the verbose setting, but if I enable verbose mode, I get all
> sort of other messages (for instance errors with A/V retreival during
> recording).  To me these seem like vastly different levels of verbosity. 
> I think a lot more users are interested in when a program is schedulaed
> for automatic removal than those who want to see 200 messages about
> 'audio behind' or 'ran out of free AUDIO buffers' which they can't do
> anything about.  If there are no objections, I'll remove the 'VERBOSE
> from the auto-expire messages and send a patch.  If people prefer that
> mythbackend be silent, perhaps we should have two verbose levels, and
> move all 'info' type messages into 'VERBOSE' and all debug type messgages
> to 'VERBOSE2' or something (in which case I'll volunteer to create a
> patch to do that).    There are lots of messages currently reported that
> are of the same priority as the autoexpire messages (those about starting
> transcode for instance), and I think myth should try to be consistant.
> 
> Comments?
> .Geoff

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Chris



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