[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Anduin Withers]

> Do you have a timeframe for this? If it's more later than sooner I'd
> like to step forward to do the work.

It wasn't something I had planned to work on before the release (I think
I'll be lucky to make it through my open tickets). You can certainly have
it.

I've started and stopped something I was working on that I had considered
somewhat parallel. It had me leaning towards a table structure like this:

global prefix id | possible matches 
-----------------------------------
1                | 1
1                | 2

id | default_parental | other options
-------------------------------------
1  | 1                | etc

id |name      | path   | feid   | optid
---------------------------------------
1  |Videos1   | /v1    |        | 1        
2  |Videos1   | c:\vid | windvr | 1    

videometadata
id | global prefix id | etc
---------------------------
1  | 1

You certainly don't have to do it like that, though if you could I'd like to
slip in per-prefix options. At the time I was just trying to come up with
something that would combine detailed prefixes and get the functionality of
your #3742 patch.

The UI is the only part I'd dread. Though it will be nice to finally fix the
tree builder (I wanted to split out the prefix back then, but wasn't making
schema changes for that release).

Changing how one gets the filename to an entry is going to require changes
in other code Myth(Archive/Web/backend UPnP/etc), so targeting the 0.21
release may be a little ambitious.

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Anduin Withers