[mythtv] Tuning remarks

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 19 August 2005 12:25 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> 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.c
> >pp?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 ?

And using the exact frequency is even easier, without messing around with the 
finetune values.

Isaac