[mythtv] Request: please fix channel up/down and watch live TV defaults forDVB:HD tuners

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cat.nyu.edu
Thu Jun 2 14:23:08 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:28 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:44 pm, Mudit Wahal wrote:
> > If I modify the channum from 2_1 to 21, 2_2 to 22, 5_1 to 52 and so
> > on, then I can click thru every single channel in my line up ! But it
> > breaks the mythfilldatabase as its looking for channel numbers 2_1,
> > 2_2 and not for 21, 22.
> 
> mythfilldatabase doesn't do anything with the channum field, except fill it in 
> when creating a channel.  You're quite free to change it to whatever you 
> want, and in the case of HD channels, I'd assume most people would want to 
> due to the lack of a _ key on most remotes.

mythfilldatabase doesn't care, but hdtvrecorder does. If Mudit wanted to
go back to using the v4l drivers then he'd want the "_" character in his
channel names.

-- Daniel




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