[mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

Daniel Thor Kristjansson danielk at mrl.nyu.edu
Thu Dec 9 16:35:55 UTC 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Doug Larrick wrote:
]bill peck wrote:
]> Am I missing something on the channel <major><minor> part?  What if I
]> have the following channels:
]> 
]> hdtv channel 2 subchannel 1
]> ntsc channel 21
]> 
]> Won't both of these channels be channel 21?
]
]Yes, they will, assuming you have both an ATSC and an NTSC tuner in the same
]system.  If 21 is standard-def coming in over ATSC, it would become 211.  You'd
]have to change one of them in the channel editor (once) to resolve the
]ambiguity.  This is true any time you have multiple video sources.

Should those be HDTV channel 2-1 and NTSC channel 21? That way if there 
is a HDTV channel 2-10 and 21-0 there is no ambiguity. (Channel 21-0 
would be NTSC channel 21 in the HDTV naming system.)

-- Daniel


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