[mythtv-users] Doing an actual scan of the channels

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 18 03:45:15 UTC 2008


On 03/17/2008 11:12 PM, Robert Koblish wrote:

>  On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>
> > 2008/3/17, Michael T. Dean:
> >
> >> On 03/17/2008 01:30 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> >>
> >>> 2008/3/17, Michael T. Dean:
> >>>
> >>>> However, if you only have 5 channels, you should really think
> >>>> about just adding them manually.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, but where do I take the correct frequencies from?
> >>
> >> In theory, they should be "published" somewhere.
> >> ...
> >> As a matter of fact, if you were to mention your
> >> country here, it's quite possible there may be some other MythTV
> >> user who has already figured all this out.
> >
> > I'm from Paraguay, but in fact, I don't think so (also tried using
> > the table for Argentina a nearby country) ...
>
>  According to
>  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_channel_frequencies> all of
>  Region 2 (the Americas) uses the same table of broadcast channel
>  assignments. Make sure also that you've selected the correct
>  broadcast standard; according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC>
>  Paraguay is now using the NTSC-M standard/

In which case you can simply set your system to use "us-bcast" frequency 
table and then use the channel number for the freqid.

Mike


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