Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#5578 closed patch

Transcoded flag is not set when the other program flags are, and Mythweb to display Transcoded flag — at Initial Version

Reported by: simonwalls@… Owned by: Isaac Richards
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.23
Component: Plugin - MythWeb Version: head
Severity: medium Keywords: transcode libmythtv mythweb easy
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

I have an interest in Mythweb showing when a program has been transcoded, since the 'Recently Completed Jobs' display disappears after some time (hours/days). I would like to know in perpetuity when a program has been transcoded (so, for example, I don't transcode it again.....)

In digging into the detail, I found the 'transcoded' field in the 'recorded' database table. This is (correctly) set when a transcode finishes -- but later on, it is not read out into the bit-flags which Mythweb uses to determine the display for a particular recording. And libmythtv is where that reading is done.

So I have created a patch for libmythtv (to set the 'transcoded' bit-flag) and a patch for Mythweb (to change the display, for a recorded program only, to show the transcoded state).

The patch for libmythtv is complete as attached. The mythweb one works as attached but could be improved - it just shows the Transcoded state as a bit of text (TRANSCODED / NON-TRANSCODED), after the stereo/closed-caption icons. This use of text is because I read someplace that most (if not all) Mythtv themes do not contain a 'Transcoded' icon, and I have zero knowledge of themes in general. The icon could be there - I could be wrong - but my intent was just to get the functionality done. I'll leave it to the theme experts and designers to make it look good.

The patches are for 0.21-fixes SVN 17451.

All the best, Simon.

Change History (2)

Changed 16 years ago by simonwalls@…

Patch for libmythtv (0.21-fixes SVN 17451) to read the transcoded program flag out of the database

Changed 16 years ago by simonwalls@…

Attachment: mythweb_transcodepatch.diff added

mythweb patch (0.21-fixes SVN 17451) to display the Transcoded flag as plain text, for a recorded program

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