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No, this is completely impossible in the Netherlands, I could give you
a url to the page showing the channel numbers of just _one_ cable
provider here : it's a long list of city and village names and almost
_all_ of them use different channel numbers.<br>
<br>
So why isn't there anyone who manages all that information? Well, there
is no inscentive to do so. There is no technology here like TiVo or its
likes so no reason for anybody to gather that kind of information. And
even if a company would want to introduce a TiVo here they would
encounter the problem that the program data for each channel is
copyrighted material which only the channel owners can publish. The
tv_grabber for The Netherlands grabs its data from a TV Guide website
which only includes the most rudementary information about Dutch
channels because they are not allowed to publish more than begin and
end times and program title.<br>
<br>
So a MythTV user in The Netherlands has to look up his local channel
frequency table, make a list or script or something to map channel
numbers to these freqencies (because the standard lists supported by
ivtv and mythtv are useless for most of us (because there is no
standard)) and enter these numbers into the channum fields for each
channel.<br>
<br>
And then we haven't taken into account that the Dutch don't want to
know about channel numbers: CNN on channel 34+? Discovery on S11? Who
cares? Everybody expects the presets to be numbered from 1 onwards and
almost everybody fills the first couple of them with the national
channels (most of which have a number in their name: RTL4, SBS6, V8 to
"help" remember the preset you should use). That was why I was curious
about the relation between channum and freqid, because it would be nice
to be able to just put any number into channum (and number it from 01
to nn) while freqid could still point to the real channel number.<br>
<br>
Hopefully MythChannels will find its way into the standard distribution
and hopefully its auto-tuning feature will start working for us here,
it would mean a _lot_ less work setting up MythTV.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-Tako<br>
<br>
Chris Petersen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">For people who are still setting up their systems that means that chanid
is no longer an important field and can simply be (mostly)
autoincremented...
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Doesn't mythfilldatabase set/update info based on channum, channame,
etc? Or does your provider not actually give any channum info?
-Chris
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