Mailing List Archive: specify quality per recording

Hello,

A feature that would be neat to see, especially for those with smaller
hard drives, would be the ability to specify the recording quality for
each scheduled recording. Kind of like on a VCR, where you can specify
standard (2hrs per tape) or extended (6hrs per tape). That way, if
you're saving a lot of recordings, you can keep the less important ones
stored at a lower quality (say you record all the Simpsons episodes
each day...just because you like to watch it, not to keep or anything),
while saving disk space for the shows you want to see in the best
quality possible.

I would assume that this would require changes to the database and the
mythtv program, neither of which would likely be too difficult.

What's other people's thoughts on a feature like this?

Adam Howard

> A feature that would be neat to see, especially for those with smaller
> hard drives, would be the ability to specify the recording quality for
> each scheduled recording. Kind of like on a VCR, where you can specify

You can already do this I believe if you're willing to do a little manual
updating of the database.

Just create a new recording profile in the databaseand then update
the entry in the record table for the item you want to use the new
profile. Each recording profile has a unique ID number assigned in
the recordingprofiles table. I think you can just update the 'profile'
field in the record table with the new profile ID and any future
recordings for that entry you modified will use the new profile.

There's no editor for this currently though, other than the ability to
create new profiles. To add a new profile run this:

INSERT INTO recordingprofiles (name) VALUES ('New_Profile_Name');

Then you can edit the profile in the setup menu. Then find out the
profile ID and edit the record table using recordid which is the unique
identifier in the record table.

UPDATE record set profile = 4 where recordid = 1;

Substitute in the right numbers there for the profile ID and the
recordid.

Eventually there will be a gui to do this. I believe someone is
working on an editor for recording options but am not sure when
any code will be available or in CVS.

Chris