[mythtv] Channel changing Bugs...

Leandro Dardini ldardini at tiscali.it
Sat Apr 12 22:50:55 EDT 2003


Or maybe we can introduce a new option, select by: chanid | channum. Few
rows of patch can do this. Isaac, what do you prefer?

Leandro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Davidoff" <dert at pobox.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Channel changing Bugs...


> This is the original problem, AFAICT from the month or two I've been
> following/working-on tuning.
>
> Why don't we rename or at least divorce chanid from its current
> role and use it as the second layer of indirection that the folks
> in Europe have been asking for.  I realize that chanid is currently
> being used in this capacity (sort of) by some people.  I'm suggesting
> that we make this the only behavior world-wide, for consistency and
> simplicity.
>
> We'll sort on chanid and take inputs from the remote against the
> values of that column.  For N. America, this means chanid == channum
> by default.  For Europe, chanid == sort-order-of-channels.  The chanid
> values would be arbitrary, so everyone could renumber them to values
> that are more familiar or easier to input via remote.
>
> It seems to me that this simplifies the code and gives everyone new
> functionality without breaking anything.
>
>
> On Apr 12, at 17:50, Leandro Dardini encoded a 1.0K recording:
> > > In europe people select a channel on their TV by chanid which is
> > > mapped to channum when the TV is tuned.  The channum is never used
> > > except for tuning in a TV or Video or MythTV box.  Forcing all
> > > MythTV users to use channum is counter-intuitive and a backward
> > > step to what MythTV was like in September before Isaac added the
> > > chanid to the database.
> >
> > I am using mythtv from about three months and still I am discovering
> > new features. I live in Europe too, and I use the chanid
> > ordering. Is there a way to select a channel by its chanid with the
> > remote? I'd like to press 1 and watch chanid 1.
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