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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:45:33 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: European Channel Tuning (was Re: fxtv patches)
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Ahh, ok.  That's interesting.  So for an antenna broadcast standard,
channel#-to-frequency mappings are fixed like in the US and the driver
handles that fine.  Its just that in Europe, folks don't typically use
channel numbers, but names instead since the names are digitally available
in the Teletext.  Cool.

Sure, feel free to add channel num -to- name mappings to fxtv if you'd
like.  One option would be to extend the channel list syntax to something
like:

Fxtv.antennaChannelList:  1 2 31(BBC1) 27(ITV) 21(CH4) 35(CH5)

where all could be referred to directly by channel number, but the latter 4
have aliases.  

However, this line might be kinda long for cable--especially European
cable--with all these name aliases, so a separate settings file might be
better as you originally suggested.  Maybe ~/.fxtvrc?

Moving these channels into a separate user-owned file would also be a plus
down-the-road when we add some sort of auto-tune functionality to the
driver/app.  fxtv could then just rewrite this file directly.

Thanks!

Randall