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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@tapanitarvainen.fi" target="_blank">mythtv@tapanitarvainen.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">But, I think it wouldn't make things worse if the limit was removed<br>(or increased to something like highest value of channels in<br>
single MUX anywhere, i.e., at least 10) and the help text in setup<br>changed to include a warning like<br>"VALUES HIGHER THAN 5 REQUIRE A VERY POWERFUL SYSTEM".<br>It should be enough to keep newcomers from breaking things<br>
accidentally - indeed possibly better than the current<br>hard limit, which many (?) may read indicating 5 is always safe -<br>while allowing those who actually have overpowered systems to use<br>higher values easier than by recompiling.<br>
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<div>Rather than hard coding the limit, requiring code modification every time you do an upgrade, why not put the limit in a config file (defaulting to 5 if not specified). That way the limit is fixed for newbies, but easily modified by those in the know and remembered after an upgrade.</div>
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