[mythtv] DB Schema Suggestions

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 14 April 2003 10:24 am, Michael Pedersen wrote:
> Okay, time for me to suggest some alterations to the schema, just
> because I can find a decent use for them.
>
> Mainly, I'm working on some glue between mythtv and mencoder in the form
> of a perl script. I'll be posting the current version today sometime
> before 2300GMT, and am pondering some of the next batch of updates to be
> done (yes, already doing so). Some items which would be good to store
> would be the following (on a per recording basis):
>
> archiving - boolean - Should this recording be set up for archiving?
> output filename - text - name of the file which should be output after
> re-encoding
> video bitrate - integer - bitrate of the output video (in kbs)
> audio bitrate - integer - bitrate of the output audio (in kbs)
> output resolution - string - resolution of the output video
>
> New default settings which could be considered
> archival video bitrate
> archival audio bitrate
> archival output resolution
>
> These settings would allow for defaults and for recording specific
> items. What does everybody think? Should I implement them?

I won't be accepting anything into the main tree that takes recordings out of 
a format that's playable by mythtv.  That's functionality that's best left to 
a completely separate tool.

Isaac