[mythtv] MythTV Recording System Future

[Mike Javorski]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 15:49, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2003 05:34 pm, Mike Javorski wrote:
> > > Data from the pvr cards is plain mpeg.  It's not wrapped in anything. 
> > > For some reason, people get confused by the fact that I name it .nuv. =)
> >
> > Yeah that is confusing. It also is confusing down the line. Why are they
> > not just given .mpg extensions if thats what they are? From what I can
> > tell, the system would support it just fine.
> 
> Filenames aren't stored in the database, they're generated at runtime based 
> off of the chanid/starttime/endtime of a recording.  I didn't feel like 
> modifying that stuff to do multiple file existence tests just to figure out 
> which extension to use which would be made even more complicated by the 
> multiple backend stuff..

Ahh.. that makes sense



- Mike