[mythtv-users] Would a capture card by any other name still record as sweet?

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Jon Heizer <jheizer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:11 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
>
>> MythTV Users,
>>
>> There's a development effort underway to, among other things, change
>> the two-level capturce card and card input model that MythTV has used
>> for years into a one-level model.  The plan was to call everything a
>> capture cards, or more likely, just a card.  It has been suggested,
>> however, to use a new term other than card since MythTV can record
>> from many other "things" like local boxes connected by USB and
>> ethernet to IPTV and HTTP streams from the cloud.  If we were to use a
>> new term other than card, what do you all suggest?
>>
>> David
>>
>
> What about just Source or Input.  Semi consistent with how TVs usually
> name their selecting of different inputs.
>
> Jon
>

These are logical names for this, however it seems the "good" names were
already previously used by myth and re-using them will inherently cause
confusion. Maybe that's okay but it will come up on this list by confused
users looking at outdated documentation. If I get a vote, could we rename
"Video Source" to "Channel Data" or something?.

Karl
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