ubuntu woes

[Pizbit]

> > First thing i  that didn't work properly at first was my tv card. I have
> > a fairly ordinary Hauppauge WinTV-GO tv card and use tvtime to watch tv.
> > I struggled to get it to search for channels and only managed to get it
> > to work properly once i installed the xawtv package.
> 
> TV tuner cards are not yet supported as a proper feature in Ubuntu.  There
> is some unsupported software in universe that you can use, as you
> discovered, but it doesn't Just Work as yet.
> 
My saa7134 aka the Flyview 3000 or something, I know it by the chip
not the name(got it re-branded by the local electronics store anyway)
worked out of the box once tvtime was installed using a previous
.tvtime from my old Debian Sid install.

I suggest tvtime as the default Ubuntu tv viewer, it works great,
xawtv pales in comparison and it's *much* easier and cleaner to
configure and overall I find the picture quality better too. In saying
that I havn't tried all the tv viewers out there but of the ones I
tried it's the best.