From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jun 26 11: 7:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from dslab7.cs.uit.no (dslab7.cs.UiT.No [129.242.16.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B75114D0D for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frodef@dslab7.cs.uit.no) Received: (from frodef@localhost) by dslab7.cs.uit.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA82175; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:04:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from frodef) To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bt848 channel frequencies References: <374AA5BB.7C87D8C2@cs.strath.ac.uk> <2hogj9f0p6.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <3.0.6.32.19990626090820.007ad510@alicia.nttmcl.com> <2hemj0b617.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <2hzp2tfr3t.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <374AA5BB.7C87D8C2@cs.strath.ac.uk> <2hogj9f0p6.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <2hpv2kba67.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <19990625190008.A2443@ipass.net> <2hvhcb9ngw.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <19990626131127.A3726@ipass.net> From: Frode Vatvedt Fjeld Date: 26 Jun 1999 20:04:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:11:27 -0400" Message-ID: <2hk8sqalej.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) Emacs/20.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randall Hopper writes: > I only suggest the second mapping being managed by libtv because it > is something that should be sharable across all TV/tuner/radio > clients, or the user ends up duplicating this info in multiple > places. I can't see any reason not to provide for the second mapping also, even if there will be a larger number of mapping tables on a global basis. For example, in the city where I live I'd guess there are less than 5 usable such mapping tables, and I'd much prefer to chose between the 5 than to manually locate and name every program. Not to mention that whenver my cable-provider decides to change something, I can probably get a new mapping table from someone else. And even if I do need to manually make a mapping table, I'd prefer it to be done such that it is consitently available from all my TV applications. ..Or am I missing your point here? > [...] > So in that station-name mapping table, it would be useful to be able > to map to either frequencies or to frequency names. This is in agreement with the comments I made earlier that radios want to map directly from program name to frequency. Like I said, this can be solved by introducing "special" frequency-names, where the real frequency is inferred from the name itself (like the mapping "129 MHz" -> 129000000). What do you think? -- Frode Vatvedt Fjeld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message