[mythtv-users] 0.28 or port external recorder?

[John P Poet]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:14 PM eric <bernhart2002 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> >What makes you think your HDPVR1 is about to die?
>
> My HDPVR1 will lock up with the blue recording light on and the only way
> to unlock it is to power cycle it. Other times it will output large green
> squares on the recording which sometimes will cause myth to lock up. It's
> just becoming a bit unreliable which is hurting the WAF
>
> >I like to live dangerously so I've been running 0.28 for well over a
> year,
> >downloading the latest updates a few times a week, and it's worked
> reliably
> >the whole time. There may have been one or two updates that broke
> >something, but it was always minor and fixed in the next update.
>
> Thats good to hear it is pretty solid. Personally I don't mind the risk,
> I'm typing this on my baytrail chrome book re-flashed with core boot and
> beta ubuntu 15.10 so taking risks isn't to concerning if I have a feeling
> that it'll work out.  I just don't want it to be totally flaky and crashing
> every couple of minutes.
>
>
> >I have been thinking about the HD-PVR2 situation. The ExternalRecorder
> API
> >would need to be extended to fully support the functionality of the
> >HD-PVR2, and I do plan on making those API changes. I have limited time
> to
> >work on it, though, so it will probably be at least a month before I can
> >get that finished.
>
> 0.28 only? If that's the case I'll upgrade next week sometime and when you
> are ready I'd be happy to do some testing for you.
>
> Are you thinking integrated into myth or external recorder with scripts?
> Reading the wiki about the external recorder makes me think I could hash
> something together to get it working.
>

I am thinking about changing it to use JSON, in which case it would likely
be 0.28 only, since Qt5 has much better JSON support than Qt4 did.

John
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