[mythtv-users] Would a capture card by any other name still record as sweet?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Jon Heizer <jheizer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:11 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
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>> MythTV Users,
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>> There's a development effort underway to, among other things, change
>> the two-level capturce card and card input model that MythTV has used
>> for years into a one-level model.  The plan was to call everything a
>> capture cards, or more likely, just a card.  It has been suggested,
>> however, to use a new term other than card since MythTV can record
>> from many other "things" like local boxes connected by USB and
>> ethernet to IPTV and HTTP streams from the cloud.  If we were to use a
>> new term other than card, what do you all suggest?
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>> David
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> What about just Source or Input.  Semi consistent with how TVs usually name
> their selecting of different inputs.

Source already has a meaning within MythTV, as does input, but it
would be less confusing to use input than source.  Essentially, right
now MythTV has cards and inputs.  If we keep the inputs but ditch the
cards layer, then we don't really need new name.

Eric