[mythtv] HDTV doc diff for channel settings

Daniel Thor Kristjansson danielk at cat.nyu.edu
Tue Jul 20 22:28:28 EDT 2004


This is a great improvement. But a couple nitpicks...

* The frequency part of the "freqid" can be any channel starting at 2,
  in my city there are a couple ATSC stations on channel 12.

* It is recommended to the broadcasters that they don't change the
  program id's often and that they never use program id 1. This is for
  faster tuning, and for compatability with DVB which uses program id 1
  for the Network Information Table. If you are using a freqid such as
  "44-1" and it works, this is only because MythTV tries to guess at the
  program id if you got it wrong, and often guesses correctly.

-- Daniel

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Brandon Beattie wrote:

]2 additions.
]
]I added one paragraph regarding what CPU is recommended for systems with
]multiple HDTV tuners.  I've had so many problems with watching HDTV when
]myth is trying to commercial detect more than one or two shows at a
]time (Commercial detect set to low CPU).  A 2.4Ghz box may work just
]fine for viewing live HDTV or previously recorded, but if you drop even
]2 HDTV tuners and have more than 1 or 2 shows to commercial flag a 2.4Ghz
]system is not going to cut it.
]
]The other addition is regarding how to setup myth for subchannels with
]HDTV.  Examples, links to dtvstream, and explanation on how things work.
]
]I did change the sgml file, but I didn't add anything more than <sectx>
]tags, someone who knows sgml may want to beautify my technical jabber.
]
]--Brandon
]


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