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

[Daryl McDonald]

On Jan 20, 2015 5:51 PM, "Mike Perkins" <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
>
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