Feature Request: Quick Capture Interface

[iamdamosuzuki]

I'd like to suggest the creation of a "Quick Capture Interface" that can be used for simply and quickly starting captures.

The current Edit Mode interface (vrecord -e) is extremely thorough but may be overkill for some reason. The Quick Capture interface should have only the following fields available for editing:

• Filename
• Recording Duration

The rest of the recording attributes (selected in edit mode) should be visible in a compact way, but not editable. There should also be a big circular red button to begin the capture.

I imagine one of two ways to select the recording attributes:

1. The attributes are inherited from the last selection made in Edit Mode.
2. An additional option in Edit Mode allows users to create a "capture profile". The capture profile can then be selected/loaded in the Simple Capture interface.

[dericed]

So perhaps a simplified ui that includes just

• filename base (options for extension, prefix, suffix will still on in advanced ui)
• recording duration

Then in the rest of simplified ui, I suspect we need:

• summary of input (conditional based on if it's decklink, dv, or audio)
• summary of input settings (ntsc vs pal, audio channel count)
• summary of encoding settings (encoding, container, etc)
• summary of playback settings (which viewer)
• summary of file output (target directory, presence of sidecar files)
• summary of any warnings or errors (like when target disk to offline or full)

@iamdamosuzuki, does that sound right to you?: a couple boxes with record button and then maybe 6 boxes of summarized data.

[iamdamosuzuki]

This looks good to me. I think this configuration would work very well.

[iamdamosuzuki]

My understanding is that at this point we're waiting for a potential refactor before moving forward with building this GUI.