Hauppauge HVR950Q TV tuner

[Nils Kassube]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:09:59AM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > The program tvtime is for analog TV while your tuner is for digital
> > TV. If you don't mind installing KDE apps I would suggest to
> > install the package kaffeine. That is my preferred program for
> > receiving and recording digital TV. Maybe someone else can suggest
> > a GNOME application vor digital TV.
>
> Ah, that makes sense.  I have Kaffeine installed but I'm not able
> to scan (I think).  I click the "Start Scan" button in Kaffeine and
> nothing seems to happen.

At the menu DVB -> Configure DVB... you can select your DVB region. That 
should make scanning much faster because unused channels aren't checked. 
OTOH, maybe it works differently for ATSC.

> Seems like maybe I need a newer version of Kaffeine.  In 9.04 is
> 0.8.6, but this seems to indicate that 0.8.7+ is required:

Strange - I have 0.8.7 from the usual 9.04 repository.


Nils