[mythtv] MythTV Recording System Future

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sun Jul 20 19:49:00 EDT 2003


On Sunday 20 July 2003 05:34 pm, Mike Javorski wrote:
> > Data from the pvr cards is plain mpeg.  It's not wrapped in anything. 
> > For some reason, people get confused by the fact that I name it .nuv. =)
>
> Yeah that is confusing. It also is confusing down the line. Why are they
> not just given .mpg extensions if thats what they are? From what I can
> tell, the system would support it just fine.

Filenames aren't stored in the database, they're generated at runtime based 
off of the chanid/starttime/endtime of a recording.  I didn't feel like 
modifying that stuff to do multiple file existence tests just to figure out 
which extension to use which would be made even more complicated by the 
multiple backend stuff..

Isaac


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