Dear all: appreciate your kind help. Actually, I have no idea which application I need and I even have no any tuner card yet. Below I list what I have, what I need and what my questions are. my environment: 1. Gnome desktop. 2. ubuntu 7.10 I want to both see analog and digital tv. my questions are: 1. Which tuner card should I buy? 2. Does the tuner card that I can use must support video4linux or it depends on the package that I choose? 4. Can there any tuner card meet all 3 type of TV you mentioned in the previous letter? 3.what does " Do you actually want broadcast TV" mean? Does that mean I can broadcast my video that is recorded by some packages on some channel from my tuner card? That sounds cool~~. thanks for your detail explanations, miloody ----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div> loody wrote: > I want to see Tv on my ubuntu, but I have no idea what packages I can > apt-get or where I can find them. > Would someone suggest me the package list? </div>sudo apt-get install tvtime that's what i use! if you want to go hardcore then look at mythtv or mythbuntu. what tuner card do you have? - -d Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:25:15 +0200 From: Clayton <<a href="mailto:smaug42@gmail.com" target="_blank">smaug42@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: how to install TV application on Ubuntu To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:e29967880805040125g39cdf92fwc6e5d76fb4863f13@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">e29967880805040125g39cdf92fwc6e5d76fb4863f13@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > I want to see Tv on my ubuntu, but I have no idea what packages I can > apt-get or where I can find them. > Would someone suggest me the package list? > appreciate your help, You haven't really given enough information... Do you have a TV tuner (USB, PCI card etc) attached/installed? Do you want to watch TV in a small window? Do you want to build a full blown media center with full TV and video management? Do you use Gnome? KDE? Do you actually want broadcast TV, or just to view AVI/MPG video, or do you want P2P Live TV? MythTV is nice for setting up your computer as a media center. I use it all the time for watchign DVB-T TV and watching my AVI/MPGs (there are also plugins for internet video source like YouTube). For just watching TV in a small window.. there are loads of applications... KDETV, TVTime, XAWTV, Kaffine, Xine, etc etc, but this assumes you have a TV tuner of some sort. For P2P TV, it can really depend on what country you are in and if Linux is supported... Zattoo for example has a Linux P2P TV client, and is available in most of western Europe. Another is Miro, or SopCast.. and dozens of others. So... options options.. but you really need to define better exactly what it is you're hoping to get. C.