[mythtv] More recording profiles? (revisited)

[Paul Thompson]

Malcolm Smith wrote:

> Here's my 2 cents...
> 
> I use my mythbox in 2 ways. The first as an easy to use TV based Tivo box
> (albeit better than Tivo in many ways). The second as a road warrior. I
> travel a lot so I like to record programs for when I'm on the road.
> 
> At home the myth functionality is great... transcoding spreads the load of
> recording and compression and is intuitive.
> 
> On the road I have a wndoze laptop (sorry no possibility of Linux on this
> one it doesn't belong to me). What I like to do is to "nuvexport" the
> recordings and stick them on space on my laptop's hard drive. I can then
> watch them in hotel rooms. This can only be done when I'm at home. Dial-up
> connectivity on the road means that I cannot remain connected whilst
> nuvexport does it's stuff.
> 
> I schedule recordings primarily through mythweb rather than the on screen
> (unless I'm watching on the TV and want to record).
> 
> I watch records 50% on the TV, 50% via exported files.
> 
> What I'd like is this:
>  1. Be able to schedule exports (i.e. run Nuvexport) from mythweb (How about
> a button on the "view recordings" screen similar to the delete button?).
> That way I can specify an export without having to be able to log into my
> myth box. Nuv export could "transcode" to any format we choose.
> 
>  2. Specify a "transcoder" to produce the type of output that Chris is
> talking about. (i.e. specify an export as well as a transcode). For example
> when capturing "the West Wing" I'd like always for it to produce a divx
> encoded file as well as keeping the .nuv copy.
> 
> How does that sound? I agree we should rely too much on external formats and
> code, but I believe we should "inter-operate" with other similar systems.
> 
> -malc-
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
>>[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
>>Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:21 AM
>>To: Development of mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv] More recording profiles? (revisited)
>>
>>
>>On Monday 12 January 2004 02:11 am, Chris Petersen wrote:
>>
>>>>I dunno.  I really like the the way the current stuff works.
>>
>>Just seems
>>
>>>>really easy to use to me..  If enough other developers feel otherwise,
>>>>though, sure, something like what you proposed could work.
>>>
>>>My proposal was basically a way to have the best of both worlds - assure
>>>that there are matching hardware/software/transcode settings for each
>>>profile, and still allow for as many different profiles as the user
>>>wanted.
>>>
>>>BUT, since I can't do anything about it, I'll leave it be.  Just seems a
>>>little weird that the add-profile code is still in place if it doesn't
>>>actually do anything.
>>
>>Oh, but it does do something =)  The new profile group that it
>>creates will
>>override the global (v4l, mpeg2, etc) profile group for a
>>specified backend
>>host.
>>
>>Isaac
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