[mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

Tom E. Craddock, Jr. sigtom at sigtom.com
Thu Dec 9 16:56:33 UTC 2004


Doug Larrick wrote:

> Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
>
>> Should those be HDTV channel 2-1 and NTSC channel 21? That way if 
>> there is a HDTV channel 2-10 and 21-0 there is no ambiguity. (Channel 
>> 21-0 would be NTSC channel 21 in the HDTV naming system.)
>
>
> But the infrastructure in Myth to allow non-numeric channel numbers 
> (i.e. with a hyphen) is just not there; nor do remotes not designed 
> for HDTV sets have a hyphen button.  I hit my head against this for a 
> while before punting.
>
> -Doug
>
>
>  
>

That was my next thought after I sent the previous mail....how would you 
enter the hypen to denote the subchannel.

Tom


More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list