From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 30 06:11:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA23823 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA23818 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.5/8.8.2) id PAA06937; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:11:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199706301311.PAA06937@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: European Channel Tuning (was Re: fxtv patches) In-Reply-To: from Andrew Gordon at "Jun 29, 97 04:16:06 pm" To: arg@arg1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gordon) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:11:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, smp@csn.net, multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The key point is that we have overlapping coverage areas, and so channel > numbers and channel names are independent, with a mapping of one onto the > other. Channel numbers map directly to frequency and are already done > perfectly correctly by fxtv and the driver. Unfortunately, over here > channel numbers are only used by frequency planners and technicians and > the average user wouldn't have a clue what channel number he is watching. > Not exactly. I live in an area where the cable is filled with channels *by frequency*. If you take a look at the Wincast TV users guide you will see that for every channel youcan finetune the frequency. That is something I would need. For the moment I am using an self written program to tune because fxtv does not understand channel 21.4 ;-). -Guido