[mythtv] Tuning remarks

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Aug 19 16:25:25 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:54 +0200, Daan de Beer wrote:
> In revision 6705 of channel.cpp 
> (http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/channel.cpp?rev=6705) 
> it says you should "returne" your finetune settings.
> 
> But this is impossible to do from within  thechannel editor. This means the 
> code using the channels from frequency.c is completely useless to at least 
> people in Holland. 
> 
> The old calculation was really different from the code I suggested. I think my 
> calculation would work. Also it is a bit strange that if you calculate the 
> frequency (which is in millions), you can add a number between -128 and +128. 
> There is no way the tuning can be  in that small region. So I still thing the 
> current finetuning code is broken.
> 
> I know I can specify the frequency directly, but I was hoping to be helpfull 
> by debugging code that is not working for me.

I've created a ticket for myself on fine tuning.

But why do you need it?

If the Netherlands uses a different frequency table, 
why not add it to frequencies.c ?

-- Daniel



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