[sclug] Digital TV card and channel recognition

[Sean Furey]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 06:17:23PM +0000, David Given wrote:
> Commercial STBs don't appear to need to know, instead doing a
> brute-force frequency search looking for multiplexes. Is there a way of
> doing this instead?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8299000/8299790.stm

It seems that automatically scanning may not always be as wise as it
would first appear.

(though yeah, it'd be nice if linux supported it anyway.  Maybe scan the
entire spectrum and offer the options?)

Sean