TV Capture Card

[pfifo fast]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Michael Comperchio <mcmprch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I’ve got a question about TV capture cards… and before you tell me to google
> it… I have, and don’t get understandable answers.
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> I have a Happauge 2250 capture card. This works out of the box in Win7.
> Great. I, as a rule, don’t want to have to boot to Windows to use it… and it
> wasn’t a problem until my big flat screen died and now the only hi def
> screens I have are attached to my computer. I would REALLY like to be able
> to use this card in Ubuntu. I got a friend fixing the big TV, but I’m not
> paying for it, so I’ll probably be REAL low on his priority list.
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> Can anyone point me to a ‘simple’ set of instruction to make this work?
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> Thanks Guys..
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> Michael Comperchio
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> Fazoogled! Computing
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> mcmprch at gmail.com
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I just use mplayer, from the man page:

mplayer tv://[channel][/input_id] [options]
mplayer radio://[channel|frequency][/capture] [options]

My card just works, if your card does not just work can you go into detail.