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) Message-ID: <19970629124533.16045@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970629154521.9137A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>; from Andrew Gordon on Sun, Jun 29, 1997 at 04:16:06PM %2B0100 References: <19970628124444.04368@ct.picker.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970629154521.9137A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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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
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