[mythtv-users] Digital channel ordering

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 20:04:29 UTC 2007


On 9/7/07, Nedim Cholich <mythtv at cholich.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Ron Garrison <ron.garrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 9/4/07, Nedim Cholich < mythtv at cholich.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I was lucky to have tone of digital channels on my cable (QAM) when I
> moved so I got the HDHomeRun recently to complement the pvr500 I already had
> in the system. For the last couple of days I was going through the ordeal of
> mapping channels to their real numbers/names.
> > >
> > > Back when I had hd2000 I remember digital channels showing up correctly
> in FE. Like, 4 WNBC comes before 4.1 WNBCHD etc. Now I have channels sorted
> seemingly in random order. The SD channels are sorted fine, but digital
> channels are all over the place. I triple checked my ordering preferences
> and for the life of me I can't figure out what logic FE is using to sort the
> channels. I tried numbering digital channels like 4.1 and 4#1.
> > >
> > > The only thing that worked properly was giving digital channel the same
> number but different call letters, i.e. 4 WNBC, 4 WNBCHD and different
> xmltvid. Then they showed up together. Is there any problem with having
> different channels have the same channum? Is there any other way of doing
> this? To make things worse Mythweb is behaving differently and using this
> scheme makes digital channels disappear in the listing (they are still there
> in the channel lineup). I guess Mythweb only uses channel numbers and since
> there are duplicates, it removes the new channels.
> > >
> > > Is the problem coming from the fact that channum in the db is varchar
> and not a number, so 'order by' doesn't work as expected
> > >
> > > Overall, I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with HDHR so far. The
> only glitch is that most of the time watching live HD program is not
> possible due to hickups and lag. Oddly enough watching same program on my
> laptop in vnc over wifi works better!? I guess there is no disk r/w
> involved. But recorded show play beautifully with no problems so far (cross
> my fingers).
> > >
> > > Thanks for any insight.
> > >
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> > I had this problem as well.  Its more of a problem with cable as the
> channel is ordered by the OTA number as opposed to the cable reassignment.
> Anyhow - I came across the following patch and it has worked perfectly for
> me.
> >
> > I might mention that I also like my guide revresed from the normal display
> (lower channels at the bottom of the screen) because its more logical for me
> to hit channel up and have the cursor move up and the channel increments.
> Its a very simple update if anyone is interested.
> >
> > Anyhow I found the script here:
> >
> > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3687
> >
> > Ron
>
> Great, so I'm not crazy afterall.
>
> Do you know if the patch every made it to the trunk? I'm not too keen on
> compiling my own packages.I just got the BE rock solid again.
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Daniel just commited the patch this afternoon:
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/14448

Thanks!
Matt


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