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EmbraceThePenguin

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From: New Mexico, USA

Registered: 2004-08-09

Posts: 197

Watching TV [SOLVED]

Hello there,

Ok, so I got the ivtv drivers all set up for my WinTV-PVR-250 card and I can set the channel and watch tv using mplayer /dev/video0, but I cant get ANY of the popular tv applications working.

I have tried kdetv, tvtime, xsaw (or something like that), xine, and kmplayer (Trying to connect to the TV option)  and all the applications give varying errors. For instance, tvtime says ivtv:invalid argument.

I don't mind watching tv with the cat command or mplayer, but its a real pain to change channels (ivtv-tune -t us-cable-hrc -c 35 for instance.)

Surely there is a simpler way to do this without having to install MythTV.

Anyone get this working with a regular TV app?

Thanks!!!

Joe

sash

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 155

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

I've had success with analog bttv cards.

This should be enough to install mythtv:

pacman -S mythtv

EmbraceThePenguin

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From: New Mexico, USA

Registered: 2004-08-09

Posts: 197

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

I've had success with analog bttv cards.

This should be enough to install mythtv:

pacman -S mythtv

Well, I have MythTV installed and it works, however, I still have to change the channels using ivtv-tune.

Can you give me some examples of the bttv cards? I didn't know that the WinTV-PVR cards were so unsupported in Linux.

Maybe I will just return my card for one that works...

Thanks!!!

Joe

sash

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 155

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

If you have a Wintv-PVR card, I'd say stick with that. They are the new kind of tv tuner cards, hence the (arguably) so-so support for now. But it is improving quickly, making me think of buying one  .

I'd say go to the mythtv users list and see/ask how PVR card owners change channels. The first thing that comes to mind is to use irexec with a remote to call ivtv-tune and cange channels.

An example of bttv card is the Avermedia tv'98, Leadtek Wintv-Go, ATI tvwonder and tv-wonder VE, KWORLD cards, etc. There is a huge list in the documentation for the bttv kernel module.

EmbraceThePenguin

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From: New Mexico, USA

Registered: 2004-08-09

Posts: 197

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

If you have a Wintv-PVR card, I'd say stick with that. They are the new kind of tv tuner cards, hence the (arguably) so-so support for now. But it is improving quickly, making me think of buying one  .

I'd say go to the mythtv users list and see/ask how PVR card owners change channels. The first thing that comes to mind is to use irexec with a remote to call ivtv-tune and cange channels.

An example of bttv card is the Avermedia tv'98, Leadtek Wintv-Go, ATI tvwonder and tv-wonder VE, KWORLD cards, etc. There is a huge list in the documentation for the bttv kernel module.

Yeah, I was just frustrated. I like my card, and I guess I was being too lazy...

I will keep it

Thanks for the info though!!!

Joe

enderst

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Registered: 2004-06-28

Posts: 69

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

i use

ptune.pl 13

to change channel

cat /dev/video0|xine stdin:/

to watch tv

EmbraceThePenguin

Member

From: New Mexico, USA

Registered: 2004-08-09

Posts: 197

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

i use

ptune.pl 13

to change channel

cat /dev/video0|xine stdin:/

to watch tv

I was able to get MythTV working like a charm. I was using older ivtv drivers, but installed new ones and it all works great.

Thanks!!!

Joe

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Watching TV [SOLVED]

when i was able to connect to mysql on my machine with pvr-500
hit the arrow up/down then enter