[mythtv-users] Ignoring certain channels from certain inputs

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Oct 22 10:26:06 UTC 2012


Mike Perkins wrote:

>* Transports are also known as multiplexes. Those in the US confuse 
>things for us over here by calling a multiplex a channel and a 
>channel a sub-channel :)

Hey, we don't need any furriners to help us with that, we can cause 
enough confusion of our own thank you very much :D It was inevitable 
that we'd have this confusion since in the analogue days there was a 
1-1 mapping between channel (as in programme) and frequency, and we 
still talk about the spectrum in terms of channels.

EG, up here we have a multiplex (BBC A) on channel 62 (ie a bit of 
spectrum up around 801.8MHz), and in that multiplex we have multiple 
channels (as in programme streams) - so channels 1, 2, 7, 9 
(programmes BBC1, BBC2, etc), and a load of others are on channel 
(spectrum) 62.
Channel 62 (programme TV Stars) is part of the ArqA mux which is on 
channel (spectrum) 61.
Is that enough confusion for one day ?

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