[mythtv] Statistics Gathering Feature

Miroslav Suchý miroslav at suchy.cz
Tue Mar 23 23:10:39 UTC 2010


Lennart Sorensen napsal(a):
> Too bad anyone reading the list is probably likely to be a higher end user
> and more likely to use higher end hardware.  At least that is my guess.

I suppose that Dough have on his mind some script/program/plugin 
incorporated in mythtv directly. Not just sending emails to this mailing 
list.

I would prefer opt in as some users are quite sensitive about sending 
any information out.
Having option for ./configure is bad as user with package coming from 
distribution will be opt in or opt out, without their own decision. The 
decision made the packager.
I would suggest to have normal option in mythtv or mythtv-setup.
But the question is which information we want to gather. I see several 
options:

a) capture card - option for opt-in can be in "Capture card setup" in 
mythtv-setup

b) graphic card - option for opt-in has to be on frontend, I would suggest:
  Setup -> Tv settings -> Playback -> 3rd page (profiles)
and beside information about device itself, used kernel module for this 
device send profiles too.

c) anything else? lircd devices? remotees? which command is used for 
playing videos and dvd (internal/mplayer/other)?

> I personally have no issue with openGL given I use an 8600GT, which

In first round it should be only statistics which devices and drivers 
are used. Does not matter if they work correctly or not. If we find that 
20% users have device XX then we can investigate what works and what not 
works with these device.
The goal is not spending time on device which use only 10 users 
(although it may we 10 users who are by coincidence loud on mailing list).

Miroslav Suchy



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