Simplest way to watch TV (DVB-T USB card) on Ubuntu?

[Markus Schönhaber]

Gilles Gravier:

> So... I'm looking for the simplest way, on a Ubuntu laptop to plug a USB
> DVB-T card, and watch TV from it. What's the minimal fuss solution? Not
> looking for something fancy that will turn the machine into a full
> fledged media server (though if that's what it takes, well... I'll
> resort to that).

Well, first of all, a DVB-T USB card might be useful ;-)
If you already have one that works - fine. If not
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices
among other sources can help you at making a decision which one to buy.

> On Windoze, most of these cards come with a driver and a piece of
> software that does TV viewing (and time-shifting and hard disk
> recording, which I don't really need - but will accept if it comes with
> the Ubuntu way as well)

I don't know of a card that comes with a software running under Ubuntu/Linux.
But there's kaffeine which I use for watching TV on Ubuntu.

Regards
  mks