[mythtv] Adding advanced option to encoder parameters

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 24 March 2003 10:59 am, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> It looks like these can be added in NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp, but I'm not
> surwe what the best way to set the options in mysql is (I don't see a
> table which holds encoder options.  I guess 'recordingprofiles' would be
> the best place, but I don't know the prefered way of adding options (is
> it bect to add an 'options' field, and then parse that, or is something
> else better?

Any reason they can't be like the current mpeg4 options (ie, setup in the UI, 
code lives in libs/libmythtv/recordingprofile.*)?

> Secondly, It's be nice to support a pre-scaler like what mencoder uses.
> I find that I get better images sampling at 720x480 and rescaling to my
> capture size when using mencoder, and would like to add something similar
> to mythtv.  an option like this would most likely belong in 'settings'
> and I can add it there, though I still need to find a good scaling
> algorithm.
>
> I guess first I should ask:  Is this something that would be accepted
> once I do it, or is there some reason against it?

Yup, patch away.

Isaac