[mythtv-users] Feature suggestion: Allow selection of named variants for each user job.

[Paul Gardiner]

On 10/05/2012 15:40, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 5/10/2012 10:32, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 26/06/2011 19:47, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> On 26/06/2011 16:17, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>> On 6/26/2011 08:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>> Raymond Wagner has completely redone the job queue code and user job
>>>>> handling. Among other things, his patch removes the restriction of
>>>>> allowing only 4 user jobs maximum. Therefore, in the new job queue
>>>>> (once it's available in a released version), you'll be able to just
>>>>> set
>>>>> up your 6 variants as 6 different jobs (maybe with the same prefix, so
>>>>> they're grouped together, such as, "Transcode - Interlaced," and
>>>>> "Transcode - Progressive," etc.).
>>>>
>>>> Close. The command definition allows for type, title, and subtitle, and
>>>> automatically generates a menu from such. In this case you would do
>>>> something like:
>>>>
>>>> Commercial Detection
>>>> ----- Mythcommflag
>>>> Transcoding
>>>> ----- MythTranscode
>>>> ----------- Autodetect
>>>> ----------- High Quality
>>>> ----------- Medium Quality
>>>> ----------- Low Quality
>>>> ----- My Transcoder
>>>> ----------- Interlaced
>>>> ----------- Progressive
>>>> ----------- 720p from Interlaced
>>>> ----------- 720p from Progressive
>>>> ----------- SD from Interlaced
>>>> ----------- SD from Progressive
>>>
>>> Excellent, I'll just wait for that then. Nice job. Along with JYA's
>>> changes to mythtranscode, that'll let me do things really easily that
>>> I just couldn't do before.
>>>
>>> I'll remove my feature request from the wiki then.
>>
>> Did Raymond's work make it in to 0.25. If so, can someone tell me where
>> I set up such user jobs?
>
> Not yet. I'm waiting on a bunch of other code it would depend on to get
> written before I finish it up.

Oh ok. Thanks for the info. Will be a nice thing to have when it's done.

Paul.