[mythtv] ivtv support classes and deviceIsMpegFile

[Unit3]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:13 -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> deviceIsMpegFile was put in primarily to aid in development so that I could
> work on mythbackend from my laptop with no (at-the-time) USB supported
> capture device and hence the reason it is undocumented since it wasn't
> meant for production use.

Ahhhh.


> Your code will need to handle "channel" changing,
> etc. and could potentially be used to "record" non-video broadcasts as well,
> such as mp3 radio broadcasts.

This is true, although I never really thought about it.

> I'll let others comment more as I know the idea of recording streams or
> non-video content has come up before.

Hmmm... maybe just a more generic solution is the best way to go. If so,
what's a good base class to model off of for implementation purposes?
Something with comments or documentation would be nice. ;)

Graeme