[mythtv] New plugin scheme / Filter selection interface?

[Bruce Markey]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Judging by the ongoing thread about documenting filters, it seems to me 
> that (aside from lack of documentation) there are 3 basic problems with 
> the current method of setting up filters (more specifically, playback 
> filters):
> 
> (1) the "Deinterlace Playback" checkbox 'invisibly' puts linearblend at 
> the head of the filter chain.  If you prefer kerneldeint, you have to 
> un-check "Deinterlace Playback" and manually specify kerneldeint in the 
> playback filter chain.  This is rather counter-intuitive.

The docs are being updated to clarify this but continue with
your case for a GUI ;-)...

>> (3) Related to (2) (which will be partially solved by the forthcoming
>> docs (thanks, Andrew)):
>
> Sorry, I meant "thanks, Bruce"

Andrew provided all the core info, D Banerjee filled in his
parts, a half dozen people sent contributions off-line and
Robert polished it and put it in. A group effort, really.

> Anyway, I just thought I'd throw this idea out there and see if there's 
> any interest/thoughts/suggestions.

Great idea. Go for it! Filling a ComboBox with the discovered
filters shouldn't be hard but filling the GUI widgets for the
per-filter parameters I suspect will be trickier. However, having
help text for each parameter would be really cool.

--  bjm