Ronald Verlaan wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering why v4ctl can set channels but NOT frequencies? > It spend a reasonable amount of time to figure out which channels my cable > provider lists on its homepage correspond with which channels in xawtv for > instance. Being able to set the frequency right away would save a lot of > time :P > > Is there any reason why this aint possible? Not implemented :-) Most people don't know the frequencies for TV stations. They know the channel numbers (or names). I'd prefeare to have working frequency tables (channel name => frequency) in xawtv rather than asking users to fiddle with the frequencies directly because of that. The ~/.xawtv config file accepts frequencies through, thus you can put your TV stations in there and then use "v4lctl setstation xxx". > For setting radio channels it is possible with the application named > "radio"... There are no channels for radio, and everyone uses the frequency to tune the statiosn ... Gerd -- You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20
