Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-23 Thread Doug Larrick
Doug Larrick wrote: The attached patch fixes a longstanding difficulty in setting up an HDTV Myth box, namely that you needed to go in and manually set the freqid field in your database as appropriate for each of your stations. Look back in this thread for the rest of the details. This version

[mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
The attached patch fixes a longstanding difficulty in setting up an HDTV Myth box, namely that you needed to go in and manually set the freqid field in your database as appropriate for each of your stations. This information is provided by datadirect, and thanks to Daniel's recent work in the

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread bill peck
Am I missing something on the channel majorminor part? What if I have the following channels: hdtv channel 2 subchannel 1 ntsc channel 21 Won't both of these channels be channel 21? On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:28:11 -0500, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached patch fixes a

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Taylor Jacob
The ultimate result of parsing the control tables in ATSC (and DVB) is a set of video, audio, and other PIDs in the TS stream to process and/or pass through to the recording on disk. This set of PIDs typically remains constant for a given channel, and so storing it in the database would

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
bill peck wrote: Am I missing something on the channel majorminor part? What if I have the following channels: hdtv channel 2 subchannel 1 ntsc channel 21 Won't both of these channels be channel 21? Yes, they will, assuming you have both an ATSC and an NTSC tuner in the same system. If 21 is

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Kyle Rose wrote: Doug, what will this patch do to my existing channel setup? Should I blow away the rows in the channel and program tables associated with the HDTV input before I run mythfilldatabase? No need. For existing channels mythfilldatabase will simply rewrite the freqid field. If you

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]PID caching: ]The ultimate result of parsing the control tables in ATSC (and DVB) is a set of ]video, audio, and other PIDs in the TS stream to process and/or pass through to ]the recording on disk. This set of PIDs typically remains constant for a given ]channel, and so storing it in the

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: Should those be HDTV channel 2-1 and NTSC channel 21? That way if there is a HDTV channel 2-10 and 21-0 there is no ambiguity. (Channel 21-0 would be NTSC channel 21 in the HDTV naming system.) But the infrastructure in Myth to allow non-numeric channel numbers

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Doug Larrick wrote: ]Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: ] Should those be HDTV channel 2-1 and NTSC channel 21? That way if there is a ] HDTV channel 2-10 and 21-0 there is no ambiguity. (Channel 21-0 would be NTSC ] channel 21 in the HDTV naming system.) ] ]But the infrastructure

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Isaac Richards
On Thursday 09 December 2004 12:59 pm, Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the infrastructure in Myth to allow non-numeric channel numbers (i.e. with a hyphen) is just not there; nor do remotes not designed for HDTV sets have a hyphen button. I hit my head

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread bill peck
Its a little more typing on the remote but we could require 5 digits be entered in the remote if you don't have a hyphen key channel 21 program 2 would be entered as 02102 on a non hyphen remote. or entered as 21-2 on a hyphen remote. channel 21 ntsc would be entered 02100 on a non hyphen

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Joshua M. Thompson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:35 -0500, bill peck wrote: Its a little more typing on the remote but we could require 5 digits be entered in the remote if you don't have a hyphen key What seems logical to me is to default to the first subchannel and provide a function mappable to a remote button to

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Joshua M. Thompson wrote: What seems logical to me is to default to the first subchannel and provide a function mappable to a remote button to flip between the subchannels. Actually, this doesn't make sense at all, at least in my area. The subchannels are not really related. I have 3 channels

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Automatically set freqid for HDTV

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it must not break the database/setup for those of us who cannot run mythfilldatabase as there is no feed/info available (eg perth) These changes only affect the built-in zap2it DataDirect grabber. Though if you're manually setting up freqid's for HDTV in the database,