[mythtv] idea for multiple tuners/inputs

[Dave Alden]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:24:47PM +0200, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Dave Alden wrote:
> 
> >confusing to have multiple channel 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, etc...
> >
> With 0.10, you can assign am arbitaru number in the channel.channum 
> column of the database, and that number will be used for display and 
> input. channel.freqid will be used for tuning. They are usually 
> identical, but don't have to be.
> 
> There is currently no user interface to edit that (at least not in the 
> release or CVS), you have to manually edit the database.
> 
> Run mythfilldatabase with the --preset option, if you want to use that.

Wow, that's great news.  :-)  Now I can simply patch it to setup a
default "adder" in the setup program (i.e., when setting up the Video
Sources you can define a number to add to all of the channels in that
video source).  :-)

...thnx,
...dave