[mythtv] Channel management

[Tako Schotanus]

Same here in the Netherlands, the frequencies are different from city to 
the next (we've even encountered small differences within the same 
city!) so I just edited the channel table by hand. Something like 
mythchannels sounds like a good tool to help people from countries like 
ours manage the channel info.

Simon Kenyon wrote:

> ramon.roca at xcombo.com wrote:
>
>> About the player for the preview, new mythchannels have a setting that
>> points to which player have to be used. Defaults to mythtv, which
>> certainly makes sense, but hasn't been implemented yet, it can't since
>> it's still unstable for some features, so no preview available now. 
>> To w/a
>> this,
>> it can be set to any external player and have also settings to describe
>> the system command to be executed, just like mythvideo, or the external
>> change channel call. I do find it useful to me and allows me to work on
>> that so what does not makes sense is take this out. By default I can
>> provide a readme explaining how to setup this preview with mplayer and
>> dvbstream (which is what I'm using now), but then everybody can also 
>> call
>> whatever player of choice.
>>
>> I'm doing in that way certainly for being able to be included in the 
>> CVS.
>> But I don't know, those kind of discussions sometimes looks more 
>> something
>> like "what has to be first, the egg or the hen?"
>>
> here in ireland (dublin) the local cable company has chosen to use 
> non-std frequencies.
> they are down in the VHF band. being able to manually set these up is 
> there quite important to me.
> the way i did it to use mythtv was to work out the channels with 
> another app (which came with the ivtv driver)
> and put them in by hand with filldatabase --manual. although it works, 
> it is not exactly easy. now i know, you get
> what you pay for. i'm not being ungrateful.
>
> mythchannels seemed to be caught in a argument about the "purity" of 
> the code and a desire to not have a dependency
> on mplayer for the preview. i can understand that as long as there is 
> an alternative. is it possible for the built-in viewer to
> work in a real-time mode, so that the effects of tuning are 
> immediately visible?
>
> it is just my plain ignorance that i don't know the answer to this. 
> there is a lot of code and i've only just started to
> understand what is going on.
>
> keep up the code work (all of you)
> it is appreciated
> -- 
> simon
>
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