[mythtv] [PATCH] MP3 options for TV recording
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Dec 5 11:45:39 EST 2003
On Thursday 04 December 2003 20:29, Bruce Markey wrote:
> David Zanetti wrote:
> ...
>
> > How bout "Alogrithm Choice", and a help text of "Lower numbers ask
> > for
>
> I don't think "Algorithm" is the right lingo for a user of a
> television recorder. She'd probably rather just see "Quality".
> Despite the internal semantics (I too, visualized a low quality
> algorithm copying memory unnecessarily ;-), the only thing a
> disinterested user needs to know is:
>
> quality=0..9. 0=best (very slow). 9=worst.
I agree... end users don't want to know about 'Algorithms'. Though,
perhaps 'Encoding Quality'?
Also, is it me, or is the 0...9 scale counter-intuitive? For something
called 'quality', I'd expect a higher number == higher quality. Here,
higher number == faster, lower quality. This always used to confuse me
in the Recording Profile setup screen, in the MP3 audio section, though
I think the help text was finally updated to be more clear. Maybe this
screen could take a cue from that...?
-JAC
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