[mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

Daniel Thor Kristjansson danielk at mrl.nyu.edu
Thu Dec 9 17:08:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Doug Larrick wrote:
]Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
]> 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.)
]
]But the infrastructure in Myth to allow non-numeric channel numbers (i.e. with
]a hyphen) is just not there; nor do remotes not designed for HDTV sets have a
]hyphen button.  I hit my head against this for a while before punting.

Ok, I guess we can deal later with this if we see ten channels on 
HDTV... I would only think that would happen if someone offered low res 
news programming, or maybe audio programming over ATSC. Let's punt for now.

-- Daniel


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