[mythtv-users] Playback Profiles? WTF?!

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/19/2008 08:12 AM, Brian Long wrote:

>  On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the introduction, Johnny.  My name is Mike, and I'm
> > hoping you (or anyone else reading this thread) can help me out.  I
> > requested--a couple of times, now--that some users (who are
> > wiki-literate) start up a page for users to "compare" playback
> > profiles.  The purpose would be to provide some documentation for
> > this very complex configuration item in Myth... :)
> >
> > This page should document various usage strategies--i.e. /do not/
> > edit the default example playback groups/profiles, instead create new
> > groups and add new entries to play around with so you can see where
> > things were (Current Video Playback Profile -> Add New; start simple
> > (i.e. if rez > 0 0 -> ffmpeg & XVideo) and add new, fancier features
> > one by one to see how they affect quality and performance; ...  It
> > should also include some information that explains how Myth uses the
> > profiles (see below in the description before the SQL for the gist of
> > it).
>
>  Is there an easy way to restore the default playback profiles if
>  someone was an ass and edited them in place?  :-)
>

You're going to have to trust me on this--as it seems destructive--but 
yeah.  First, copy down information you want to "save" from your current 
Playback Profile Group configuration (unless you want to just start 
over).  Then, start deleting all the Playback Profile Groups.  Go to the 
"Delete" button next to "Current Video Playback Profile" and hit it 
until there's no name left in the drop-down box next to "Current Video 
Playback Profile" (it should be blank).  At this point, the Playback 
Profile Entries may look messed up (there may be some seemingly random 
number of them that may or may not be filled out), but don't worry about 
that.  Then, select the Next button to "save" your settings.  Finally, 
go back through TV Setting|Playback until you get to the "Playback 
Profiles (3/9)" page, where you'll see all the defaults.  Then, add a 
new playback profile group and edit to your content.

This would be another great piece of information to add to the wiki 
page...  (Assuming people aren't so selfish that they are only willing 
to complain that the devs aren't willing to write documentation, but as 
soon as they figure out how to set up their own Playback 
Profiles--generally getting the info they need from a dev or someone who 
has been working on code for Myth--they're "out of here" and unwilling 
to devote a little bit of time documenting what they learned.  It's 
starting to look more and more to me like that's the case, though.)

Well, I'm going to write a patch that re-creates the default groups as 
soon as the final group is removed because I'm trusting that someone 
will eventually start putting some of this info on the wiki, so my time 
is probably better spent making Myth better than learning to 
wiki/writing stuff up that makes sense to someone who understands the 
code, but probably is meaningless to someone who just wants to use Myth...

Mike