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[Bug 452492] Re: Backend Setup - DVB-S Channel Scan. Frequency in KHz should be Hz

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From: Thomas Mashos <tgm4883@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:38:15 -0000
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Thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by opening this ticket. I
am marking this ticket as confirmed because it appears to have enough
information to help the developers understand the problem. It is
possible I am wrong and another more experienced triager or developer
may adjust the status of the ticket to "incomplete" and request
additional information.

** Changed in: mythbuntu
Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: mythbuntu
Status: New => Confirmed

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Backend Setup - DVB-S Channel Scan. Frequency in KHz should be Hz
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Confirmed

Bug description:
Mythbuntu 9.10 i386

Backend Setup. DVB-S Capture card, channel scan (Manual, Tuned)

When entering the the required parameters for the above scan, there is no default frequency (Strange, in itself, but I'll leave that for another day), the field is blank, so you have no clues.
The helper text at the bottom of the screen says 'Enter Frequency in Kilohertz', but this is incorrect, it should be Hertz.

eg, Astra 28.2, transponder 50. Frequency is 10.847 GHz, that's 10847 KHz, or 10847000 Hz.

If I enter 10847, I get nothing. What it actually needs it 10847000, and I get a full scan. The giveaway, in the end, was that if I put a decimal point (eg 10817.50, for transponder 48) I get an 'Error parsing parameters' error when selecting 'Next' to commence the scan.

So my suggestion would be to correct the text to specify Hertz, as a minimum, but maybe add an example with a GHz to Hz conversion for the non-scientific among us.

Regarding the no default frequency issue, I imagine it's because nobody has compiled a frequency table, such as there is for DVB-T. I would be happy to attempt to compile a UK table, and maybe help with an international one. Would that be useful?