[mythtv-users] Can mythtv handle two dumb capture cards?

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 22 July 2004 01:33 pm, Maarten wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2004 18:56, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 July 2004 12:39 pm, Maarten wrote:
> >
> >
> > The default for logging to a file is off.  If some packagers change that,
> > that's their decision, but it doesn't change the fact that the default is
> > off.  There'd be a command line option to _disable_ logging if the
> > default was on.
>
> Fine. Isaac, you're the boss, so I must be wrong.
> But please note that the default I'm talking about is to be found in the
> start-script in the 0.14 tarball, and my guess is, you're the packager.
>
> I think it is far-fetching to state that it is off by default.  The
> compiled-in defaults are not the only thing that matter, the included
> config files play just as important a role.  Besides, mythbackend IS
> verbose by default; you need to disable its chatting by adding '-v quiet'
> to have it shut up for real.

Stuff in contrib/ is just that -- contributed non-official stuff that may or 
may not be broken, but may be useful to some users.  The docs tell you to run 
mythbackend from a console, and the default level of verbosity and default 
actions of the command line args reflect that.

If installing mythbackend from source automatically set it up to run with 
logging to a file, then it would be defaulting to on.  It doesn't do that, so 
it's defaulting to off.  If changing behavior requires user (or packager) 
intervention, then they're no longer using the defaults.  I fail to see what 
is so confusing about this.

Isaac