Frequency Trades?

[MCE-Refugee]

Originally Posted by ElGato

It was on this basis that it was considered we'd leave the hard work up to someone like SKY. How often do they change there numbering?

Far too often:-) Every year or two anyway sometimes with quite major rearrangements of hundreds of channels. It's something that is known about for weeks or months beforehand butalways seems to catch the Windows Media Center EPG on the hop even though TiVo apparently updates on time. Having the flexibility of managing our own EPG of course we can change or not as required.

Apart from channel renumbering/renaming there is also a regular change of channels from one transponder to another. This is the important part of keeping a .frq file up to date as while the channel numbers are arbitrary & a matter of personal choice the tuning details are essential.

[stryker]

I vote sky, if we are to use an existing numbering system thats the one to use.

[rickgillyon]

Let me guess, you're a Sky subscriber?

[stryker]

Sky? no way... I hate sky, we can thank sky for having 1 hr series episodes where 20 mins are adverts!!!! they did it first, get away with it now they all do it. Plus I hate them for so heavily compressing the program content yet adverts blast out top quality.... fwiw that "blast" has nearly wrecked speakers in the past.

[doc]

I'm no bothered what channel numbers are used as long as there is an frq file with all the available channels.

As you can see from the frq files I posted earlier I have my own strange set of channel numbers.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by stryker

Sky? no way... I hate sky, we can thank sky for having 1 hr series episodes where 20 mins are adverts!!!! they did it first, get away with it now they all do it. Plus I hate them for so heavily compressing the program content yet adverts blast out top quality.... fwiw that "blast" has nearly wrecked speakers in the past.

I think we can blame US TV for creating 1-hour shows with 40-44 minutes of content. The rest was always going to fill up with ads! But I agree on the volume on the adverts, it's a complete PITA, luckily with Sage I just FF through the adverts every time...

[stryker]

Its seems most who have been involved with this thread vote "sky" so lets get started shall we?

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by stryker

Its seems most who have been involved with this thread vote "sky" so lets get started shall we?

I'm not fussed about the order of channel numbers as I'd change these myself to suit my needs. As long as the data is kept upto date and is accurate then I'll be using it

[Bacon2002]

Guys,

I've had a go at setting some of this Wiki up, it's going to take a bit of a team effort to end up with something we are all happy with so please have a look.

http://sagetv.wikia.com/wiki/SageTV_...re_PC_Software

I've not used a Wiki before so go easy on me.

Things that we need to work on are:-

Review the frequency data
Stéphane - could you add something about your excellent plugin?
A list of Freeview areas or transmitters
How to.... lots of help needed here

And no doubt lots of other stuff.

Remember anyone can update this.

Ta,

David

[stryker]

As I type this I'm in the middle of a server rebuild (my choice :-)

But a quick look and it seems excellent! Your topics are bang on the money and I'll be adding some content under them during the week.

I think its a brilliant idea to list the channel orders seperate to the frequency data, kind of mutes our whole debate in this thread... perhaps I could write a php app so we had a webpage that would merge channel orders with a frq file list from the wiki assuming the idea is we keep the call signs named the same!

Good work so far.

[John@TunerUK]

I too am just undergoing a server revamp. This is absolutely brilliant
I work 7 days a week, so I don't have a great deal of time to spare for writing up how-to's, but I do have relaible hosting space, so if it will help at all I'll be happy to donate some for the cause