-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Schlabbach wrote: > From: "Simon Kilvington" <s.kilvington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>is there no way to tell without having to try each frequency? > > > The idea of the frequency_list_descriptor is that the receiver tries _all_ > frequencies and decides which one it gets the best signal from. > > Actually, I think it should work the other way around: When a receiver > scans for multiplexes, and scans all frequencies, it might find the same > contents from several transmitters. The frequency_list_descriptor allows > the receiver to identify which multiplexes carry the same contents, so that > it can then select the multiplex with the best signal. > ah, I see - that makes sense - thanks so the best thing for me to do is just parse an existing channels.conf file to find the frequency and other tuning params for a given service ID - did anything ever come of the new format for storing DVB config info and the library for reading it? is there some library that will parse the existing format and also cope if/when the new format is used? or should I just assume the existing channels.conf format will be used? - -- Simon Kilvington -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDqnqFmt9ZifioJSwRAj+tAJ9ByJiD/AhgpEW9WleG45PKqQwxqwCfQNgf gk+zvvC2e7nxAHfQ65CA2AE= =JjEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
