> On Friday 16 December 2005 09:53, Martijn Morriën wrote: >> You could use MythWeb at the same time (or from another machine, >> probably most convenient) to update the finetune values and then >> switch channels while watching LiveTV, this should show direct >> results. >> Mass updating is also possible with MythWeb. You can change all >> finetune values for all channels in one go. Another option is to >> directly update the database (but I have no experience in that). >> >> If you know the exact frequency of the channel you can calculate the >> finetune value. Explanation can be found here >> http://www.mythwiki.de/index.php/HOWTO_Mythfilldatabase (German >> explanation) based on that information I created an online calculator a >> few >> months ago (http://www.escay.nl/mythtv/frequency2channel.php) > Speaking of tuning, the first time I tried mythtv, I first tried kdetv > (kde > viewing program for kde) to make sure the capture card is working. Kdetv > can > scan for channels and most of the time, it can discover the name of the > channel. How hard can it be put this in mythtv? It also based on qt. > So you don't have to enter any of the frequency's because mythtv can scan > for > them. > > The same goes for finetuning. My tv can do this. It scans for a channel > and > then you can see it finetuning for that frequency. I think it just tries > some frequency's, measure the signal quality and/or the image quality and > it > picks the best frequency it found. > That sort of functionality would be really great. Even using ptune-ui tofind the frequency isn't that good, because it takes such a long time to change the frequency through enough Hz to see the difference in MPlayer. I ended up lowering the frequency for one channel by about 50 Hz, the others I gave up on and left the frequency that Myth found from its scan. Another thing that would be great is some kind of signal strength metering (like the early hi-fi fm radios had). I wondered if ivtv had this somewhere, but gave up looking.
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