That is clear in the link I originally quoted, since it's identified as a capable of playing OGG, MP3, etc, and those digital data
files may contain such data.  However, display of data and demodulation of frequencies are not the same sorts of things.  Knowing
channel numbers and frequencies doesn't seem to have any intrinsic interface relevance to VLC even if such data can be displayed
from the digital data formats.

Chuck


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Carlson [mailto:tclug at natecarlson.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:00 PM
> To: Chuck Cole
> Cc: Matt Hallacy; TCLUG List
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] OT channel frequencies
>
>
> VLC can display video from your TV tuner card.
>
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Chuck Cole wrote:
> > He may be looking for that, but his question was about VLC performence in Linux.
> >
> > Do you know how channels and frequencies are relevant within VLC ?
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Matt Hallacy
> >>
> >> You're looking for this:
> >>
> >> http://www.jneuhaus.com/fccindex/cablech.html
> >>
> >> Cable uses slightly different frequencies than VHF/UHF, and depending on
> >> if it's a Standard, IRC, or HRC system they differ on the cable system.
> >>
> >> Unless you've moved out of BFE Minnesota, you'll probably have to try
> >> all three cable standards and hope for the best. It's most definitely
> >> NOT actually VHF broadcast frequencies though.
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 18:56 -0500, Raymond Norton wrote:
> >>> I did say I was capturing from a TV tuner. Glad I explained it well
> >>> enough that you knew what I meant
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Chuck Cole wrote:
> >>>> Linux and TV tuners are very different things.  Linux doesn't include the physical capacity to process (receive and
> >> demodulate) TV
> >>>> channels, some hardware must do that.  Your language isn't describing the right physical things and their interfaces.
> >>  A typical VHS
> >>>> tape player has a receiver for TV and delivers base video extracted (demodulated) from the  TV carrier signals but
> >> does not have a
> >>>> direct interface a PC can use, and this has nothing yet compatible with VLC or Linux.  Eventually, an
> >> analog-to-digital conversion
> >>>> must be done, and then a digital encoding that may be part of VLC may occur.  You may be clear on what you seek, but
> >> your language
> >>>> isn't stating that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chuck
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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