Chuck Cole wrote:
> 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

I haven't used VLC much, but from the documentation it seems clear that it 
is able to drive tuner cards so frequencies would be relevant.

http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch10.html