[mythtv] [PATCH] HDTV - fix tuning using the major portion of the channel number

[John Patrick Poet]

Doug Larrick wrote:

> John Patrick Poet wrote:
>
>>
>> Doug disable the patch to tune ATSC channels by looking at both the
>> major and minor portions of the channel number.  This was the correct
>> thing to do, since it was broken.  As he pointed out, that code was
>> looking at the Frequency ID instead of the Channel number to determine
>> the "major" portion of the channel number.
>>
>> This patch fixes the problem for me, by using the "Channel Number" as
>> seen when you run setup.  This could be a problem, however, if someone
>> has overridden that value with something other than the "real" channel
>> number.  To handle this, it will make a second pass looking for *only*
>> the subchannel, if the majorchannel.subchannel was not found.
>
>
> Just my opinion -- and I admit I live in a market where none of my
> stations are sending multiple major channel numbers -- but the correct
> way to fix this is to switch hdtvrecorder over to using the new DVB
> method of storing channels in the database.  That's obviously not gonna
> happen in time for the release.  At a glance John's patch looks OK, and
> might be a quick workaround suitable for the release.
>
> So Daniel (or anyone), are you working on moving over to the new DVB
> stuff, or would you like some help?
>
> -Doug


It is easy enough for me just to add this patch whenever I do a "cvs 
co", so I personally don't care if this makes it into .17.

I am wondering if there is anyone out there not operating from the cvs, 
but has the same problem I do.  If so, it would probably be nice if .17 
had some sort of fix for this problem.

John