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

[Mike Perkins]

On 20/01/15 21:20, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Jon,
>
> Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 10:21:06 PM, you 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.
>
>> JonÂ
>
> How about tuner? Or would that be confusing?
>
The point is that a lot of the new program sources aren't tuners.

My own suggestion would be "Input Device", although again it would be difficult 
to consider the Internet to be a device.

How about "Input Interface"? The "Source" we have now describes /how/ the 
program information is to be derived from the input. An "Interface" would be the 
connection between mythtv and the outside world.

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Mike Perkins