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

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Tue Jan 20 21:51:51 UTC 2015


At 3:11 PM -0600 1/20/15, David Engel 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?

"Recording input"?

But then, I think we would need to do something about existing "Video 
Source" label, too.  I think that should be named "Guide Source" or 
"Listings Source".

Craig


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