[mythtv] Video Sources - time to call them what they are?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Nov 21 17:38:15 UTC 2007


On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:37:04AM +0000, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> For some time now I've considered the possibility that 'Video Sources' 
> are causing more confusion among users than necessary.
> 
> Those of us more familiar with MythTV have no problem understanding the 
> relationship between capture cards, card inputs & the 'video sources'.  
> For new users though, the words 'video sources' more than likely conjure 
> up images of actual video inputs - something that doesn't bear any 
> relation to 'sources of TV Guide data'.
> 
> So, I'm proposing that 'Video Sources' are renamed 'TV Guide data 
> sources' or something similar.  I know that it'll no doubt mess up some 
> translations but if we're all on board with the idea it'll be  trivial 
> to fix.  Somewhat more involved (but hardly the end of the world) would 
> be updating table & column names to suit.

In the book Practical MythTV, which I tech edited for aPress earlier
this year, we touched on precisely this point.  I recommended that
people consider them "Programming Sources", and gave "Bright House
Pinellas Analog Cable" as an example label.

I do concur that "Video Source" is a poor choice of label.

Cheers,
-- jra
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