[mythtv] [PATCH] Add transcoding support (final)

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 09:59 am, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> Isaac,
> a couple things about the transcoding stuff you merged.
> 1) This line needs to be added in NuppelVideoPlayer::AddTextData around
> line 781:
>         txtlen[wtxt] = len;

I'm planning to consolidate all those txt* vectors to a single struct.

> 2) You may want to remove the ForceChannel stuff in channel.cpp and
> channel.h, that just snuck into my patch.  My AverTV card doesn't seem to
> tune correctly if initialized to the current channel, so I need to force
> an up-1, down-1 to get it synced.  My patch didn't include the actual
> call to ForceChannel, but I forgot to remove the function when I made the
> patch.

It did include a call to it, I just left it out, with the intention of asking 
what it was for =)

> 3) In Transcoder::InitTranscoder in transcoder.cpp around line 289, the
> transcoder still saves the original file as .nuv.old instead of removing
> it.  I left that there on purpose, since the transcoder may still be
> buggy, and people may not want to lose their files, but I thought I'd
> bring it up in case you want to revert to the original 'replace the old
> file with the new one' (in which case just remove the rename, and
> uncomment the unlink)

I'll probably do that..

> 4) You seem to run some sort of code formatter on your code.  Could you
> tell me what it is, so I can make cleaner patches?

It's called 'applying by hand' =).  4 space indents, braces on their own line, 
no spaces after/before ( )s..  

> 5) I noticed you didn't include the control to enable the transcoders in
> mythfrontend (or the cvs.sql).  I'm just curious why not.

I need to talk with mdz 'bout stealing profile 3 like that -- I, at least, 
already have that number used by something else.  I'll hook up the UI bits 
later, as well.

Isaac