[mythtv] Recording Profiles

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 17 April 2003 01:07 am, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Okay, then what's unexpected about this 'feature' =) is
> that if I chose a recording profile for something scheduled
> and happen to be watching LiveTV (actually, I never watch
> live TV other than testing ;-) I would expect the recording
> profile to be honored when the recording file is opened.
> I presume writing to the ring buffer ends and a new .nuv
> file is created. Is there a reason that the codecparams
> can't be changed at that point?

It doesn't stop writing to the ringbuffer.

In order to change the encoding parameters, you'd have to stop playing, tear 
down the player completely, stop recording, tear down the encoder completely, 
start the encoder, and finally start the player back up.  Repeat for the 
transition back to live tv.  Messy, to say the least, and it's much easier to 
say 'Let it record and go back to the main menu' and start watching once the 
recording has started.

If people _really_ have a problem with the current behavior, I can always just 
remove the ability to keep watching while it transitions from live tv to a 
recording and back, as that would certainly simplify quite a bit of code and 
make things nicer overall internally.  I don't even want to contemplate 
changing encoding parameters mid-stream.

Isaac