[mythtv-users] hours to edit channels?
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Mon Jul 11 13:15:42 UTC 2011
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Douglas Peale
<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> There are three very important columns missing from the channel list display as it is: Frequency ID, Subchannel ID, and XMLID.
> Frequency ID and Subchannel ID are required to know the actual channel you are editing Frequency ID and Subchannel ID are the
> things that actually identify the channel. Channel Number, and Callsign have, in the past, effectively been random garbage until
> they have been manually edited.
This came up on another thread. Frequency ID is not what you think it is.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/485145#485145
What identifies a HDHR channel is the multiplex id and service id.
The current HDHR channel scanner mis-populates this field by putting a
number in that corresponds to the physical frequency rather than the
virtual frequency as this field is intended to hold.
Eric
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