[mythtv] ivtv settings patch

[Chris B]

What about:

- Leave the Profile setup screen as it is
- Remove all hard-coded profile name in the code ("Default", "Live TV", 
"Transcode")
- Add 2 db fields to the "capturecard" table ("LowRecProfile" - 
"HighRecProfile") pointing to arbitrary profiles
- Add a new setup screen as to associate the high/low fields to profiles 
per capture card and to specify the "default" transcode profile (that 
leaves an open path to allow specifying the transcode profile at will, 
even though I agree that will probably be hard work. Anyway, I think 
there should be more ways to schedule a transcode than the "X". I'm 
testing now a simple patch for mythweb)
- Assume low profile for live TV and high profile for recordings (it 
could be possible to add a shortcut to switch profiles in the middle of 
a live session)
- Selecting a specific profile while scheduling a recording could also 
then indirectly allow to specify which card to use (I find it quite 
important to be able to choose which program will be recorded with my 
crappy bttv and which one with the PVR, even if the least interesting 
program comes first)

I don't know yet how the master/slave system work so I don't know if 
everything is applicable.

- Chris -

Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:04:18 -0400, "Isaac Richards ijr-at-po.cwru.edu
> |mythtv/1.0-Allow|" <e6kbhbk35r0t at sneakemail.com> said:
> 
>>On Saturday 30 August 2003 06:22 am, Chris B wrote:
>>
>>>Ok. Do you have something in mind regarding how the profile system
>>>should become?
>>
>>Yeah.
>>
>>Say, 3 or 4 quality levels, arranged in groups (per-capture card type, 
>>per-host, etc), so that you can tell it to record something at high
>>quality, 
>>and it'll select the appropriate 'high quality' recording profile
>>depending 
>>on what tuner card it gets scheduled for.
> 
> 
> Is anyone actively working on this?  I finally got my pvr250 working, but
> to use it sanely in the same box as the bttv card, I need to be able to
> select different profiles for each card.  I dunno that I'm keen on adding
> multiple 'quality' profiles for each card (I see the benefit, but that
> implies being able to choose which profile to use when selecting a
> program to record, and seems like a lot of work).  If I create a patch
> that associates the current profiles with a given card, would this be
> accepted as a first step to your greater goal?
> 
> It would simply mean that the profile menu would look something like:
> Default (card1)
> LiveTV (card1)
> Transcode (card1)
> Default(card2)
> LiveTV (card2)
> Transcode (Card2)
> 
> This would also let me associate a profile with auto-transcoding, rather
> than having it always on/off (which is what Ineed, since there is no
> reason to transcode my MPEG2 streams)
> 
> .Geoff
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