[mythtv-users] Setting Tuner Freqs

[Tako Schotanus]

And this been somewhat of a discussion on the ivtv as well mailing list 
because for example here in The Netherlands you can't know at all 
because it seems that there is no standard which channel number should 
have which frequency (so depending on the place you live channel 28 
might by 350MHz or it might be 355,75MHz).

So some kind of screen in the setup where you could enter channel 
numbers, frequncies and  channel names would be really useful.
It would still be possible to use the channel/frequency tables that are 
used now so people from countries that can be found in those tables 
would have it easy: just put a name next to a channel number while 
others would have a little more work because they'd have to add the 
frequency as well. But at least it would work. And being a setup screen 
you'd be able to change it easily enough, while right now this 
information is hidden away in statically compiled tables inside the code 
and in some tv_grab script that gets info from a website you don't have 
much control over either.

Maybe I'll make a stab at it myself some time, but maybe someone from 
the current development team will think it important enough and decide 
to implement something like this? :-)


Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 14:00, Steve Brown wrote:
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>>I can only guess that this is done using the tv_grab_uk (where I am) and
>>the channel packages somehow look up the freqs, but it won't (for 
>>instance) know which RF channel my video / set-top box / cabletvb 
>>terrestrial passthrough is on.
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>No, tv_grab_uk only grabs listings, there was discussion about how this
>would work around Christmas time. I had an initial proposal to put
>cable/sky channel numbers into the XML output of tv_grab_uk, however Ed
>Avis (guy in charge of XMLTV) wanted to make improvements to the XML
>structure before putting in channel numbers.  I've not looked at that
>recently.
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>I assume different transmitters use slightly different frequencies, I
>certainly have to retune the tv when moving between Grimsby and
>Sheffield (both Yorkshire TV). Then of course there are differences
>between analogue and digital. 
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>It'd be nice for tv_grab_uk to provide this information to mythtv, but
>it's not quite as straight forward as I'd like. Maybe information about
>channel numbers and frequencies doesn't *really* belong within XMLTV
>itself- and is more of a MythTV thing.
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