ubuntu woes

[janne]

tis 2004-10-26 klockan 18:09 +1300 skrev 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.

Have you tried Zapping? When I had a tv card, that was a pretty good app
for watching television - it even did teletext very well, which was
surprisingly convenient. Also, perhaps it integrates better into the
desktop than tvtime does?




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