[mythtv-users] Video Source with no grabber

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/26/2006 08:02 PM, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 02/26/2006 06:35 PM, Bruce Markey wrote:
>>     
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>> I've configured a video source with a single channel for use when 
>>>> recording from a VCR or whatever.  I've noticed that mythfilldatabase is 
>>>> being run for 14 days for the video source (as it never has any data).  
>>> There should be a no grabber selection which would be even better
>>> but no one has done it yet.
>> Cool.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll see if I can do up a patch.
> Should be fun and easy.

Yeah.  That's why I volunteered /before/ I wrote the patch.  If it were 
more of a challenge, I'd have written the patch first and then mentioned 
it.  ;)

> Add a selection to the widget (last, not first)
> that adds something or nothing to go into xmltvgrabber then hack mfdb
> to treat that value as a flag to skip calling a grabber for this source.
>   
That's the plan I had.  The hard part is deciding between something and 
nothing.  I'm leaning toward "No Grabber" so that the meaning is 
relatively obvious from the value, but either way, the dev who commits 
should find it easy enough to switch.

Mike