[Kwintv] Small kwintv3 patch

[Michael Kedl]

It's been a while, but I used to write TV code....

We have cable channels 1-125 here (what the US standard supports).
And now, digital channels are usually assigned numbers higher, this is
no longer actual frequency mapping like the first 125 obviously, just
simpler for people to understand.

So I would suggest we allow channels higher than 99 in general. (maybe
someday we can incorporate the digital stuff into kwintv)

I believe my tuning algorithms work(ed) something like:
a) get keypress 1
b) if 2s have passed, tune the channel and exit
c) if we get keypress 2,
	1) shift over keypress 1
	2) see if channel (say 10 or 20 as examples) times 10 is higher  than
highest channel (say 125)
	3) if it is, (20), then tune it now and exit
	4) if it isn't (10), then continue
	5) if 2s have passed since key 2, tune the channel and exit
	6) if we get keypress 3
		aa) shift everything again, tune channel and exit

AA) obviously this would be extended if we ever had more than 1000
channels
BB) 2s timeout was good for most people
CC) leading zeros avoid the timeout (0, 0, 6 for instance)
DD) I use channel 000 for S-Video / Comp; if you actually have both then
you have to channel up/down thru them (I usually set 000 to svideo) [ I
HATE having to go thru menus to switch from tuner to svideo and back! ]
EE) in the channel ring, it goes something like
3,2,1,svideo,comp,125,124,... when you are channeling down (or up)
FF) in some cases I have used an "enter" key to kill the timeout (so 6
<enter> tunes channel six without waiting 2s)
GG) I also HATE the 100's key on some systems; no system I have ever
written had it ;-)

I am actually thinking about adding this kind of functionality to
qtvision.

What do you think?
Mike

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 15:41, George Staikos wrote:
> On Tuesday October 15 2002 11:14, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> > Real TVs do not have more than 100 channels :)
> 
>    I would suspect that not to be the case anymore.
> 
> > And different TVs work differently. I know two different TVs enough to
> > describe them:
> > One can have max 29 channels and has buttons 0-9 and '1-' and '2-' (if you
> > want ch 5 then press 5, if you want ch 17 then press '1-' and 7)
> 
>   I don't like that at all.  I think we should avoid that entirely.
> 
> > The other can have maybe max 100 channels. It only has buttons 0-9 and a
> > button to switch configuration of entering channels a '-/--' button.
> > When the configuration is '-' then when you press a number the channel is
> > set directly to that channel. In this mode you could not set a channel > 9.
> > When the configuration is '--'. Then you always have to enter two digits to
> > select a channel. Thats the way you have described how the TV works.
> 
>    I don't like that either really.
> 
> > But at that place always the '-' mode is used :) So it seems you are
> > proposing an inferior method :)
> 
>   But having "modes" is far too complicated imho.
> 
> > Oh and I remember a TV which worked like always changing directly to the
> > channel. So when you want to change to channel 17 you press 1 and change to
> > ch 1 and then press 7 and you change to channel 17
> > Of course this could be annoying to some...
> 
>   That would be very annoying.
> 
> > What I'm trying to say is that we should not follow closely how a TV works.
> > We should do better :)
> 
>    I'm not against that, but we shouldn't make it so different that people 
> have to learn how it works.
> 
> > At least there should be modes of operation. One to work like your tv does,
> > one to work like my :) And one to work how is it easy for me to use :), and
> > as it is easy for you :)
> > I'm ok to left the default to work as your TV ;)))
> 
>    Too complicated.  We need to find one simple, intuitive method.  There's 
> already soo much configuration.
> 
> -- 
> 
> George Staikos
> 
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