[Hoary] Watching TV ?

[gylf]

Vincent Trouilliez Wrote: 
> Good old XawTV works fine in Warty (with a cheap "BT878" Pinnacle PC TV
> card), but in Hoary, not quite ! :-/
> So I thought it was time to search for a more modern alternative, and
> what a great opportunity, to replace it with a lovely Gnome program.
> So I searched gnomefiles.org for 'tv'. Found about half a dozen TV
> viewers, only one looked nice : "Zapping TV".
> I found it in Synaptic, great ! But it refuses to start, and pops up a
> little error message : "Cannot find X screens"... Any idea ?
> I noticed that no later than yesterday, a new version of Zapping, was
> released, so tried to compile it, to see if it made any difference,
> but
> the ./configure fails, saying : 
> 
> ***
> checking for python... true
> configure: error: Python.h not found in its standard location
> ***
> 
> Is anyone successful with Zapping TV on Hoary ? Or with XawTV ?
> 
> I don't spend much time on TV, but when I do, I would rather like it
> to
> work ! :-/
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help....
> 
> 
> Vince
> 
> 
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Personally, I like tvtime.  It works great for me in Hoary.  I have a
cheap WinFast XP card (which didn't work in Warty).


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