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[John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The values that are set by Utilities|Setup > Settings > Media Settings >
Archive File Settings do not persist.  So if the frontend crashes then
you lose your settings, and you must set up those values again.  Also,
if you go back into Archive File Settings to check, or just to see what
they are, then everything is reset to the defaults.  This is horrible
user interface.  Values set by the user must persist until explicitly
changed.  There can be an option to view the default, or to highlight
those values that are not equal to the default, or to set the value to
the default without knowing what that value is; but anything that the
user sets must be remembered, particularly for every re-invocation and
across every crash.

For instance, the default recording format is PAL.  Go into Archive File
Settings, change it to NTSC, do a normal exit.  Then immediately go into
Archive File Settings again, and it will report PAL.  Similarly for the
pathname location to store recordings, the recording quality (SP, LP,
EP, HQ), etc.

mythbuntu 10.04
mytharchive 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
mythbuntu-default-settings 0.96-ubuntu1.

** Affects: mythbuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Archive File Settings do not persist
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653879
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: New

Bug description:
The values that are set by Utilities|Setup > Settings > Media Settings > Archive File Settings do not persist.  So if the frontend crashes then you lose your settings, and you must set up those values again.  Also, if you go back into Archive File Settings to check, or just to see what they are, then everything is reset to the defaults.  This is horrible user interface.  Values set by the user must persist until explicitly changed.  There can be an option to view the default, or to highlight those values that are not equal to the default, or to set the value to the default without knowing what that value is; but anything that the user sets must be remembered, particularly for every re-invocation and across every crash.

For instance, the default recording format is PAL.  Go into Archive File Settings, change it to NTSC, do a normal exit.  Then immediately go into Archive File Settings again, and it will report PAL.  Similarly for the pathname location to store recordings, the recording quality (SP, LP, EP, HQ), etc.

mythbuntu 10.04
mytharchive 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
mythbuntu-default-settings 0.96-ubuntu1.