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saedelaere

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Registered: 2009-04-24

Posts: 30

TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

Hi,

i'am working for some time now on a frontend to watch and record tv. It supports analog tv with devices that have a build-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. In fact you can use all devices that are driven by the ivtv, pvrusb2 and cx18 driver.

The homepage provides more informations and you can find some screenshots there.

I also created a pkgbuild for the latest stable version and one to obtain the source code from a bazaar repository.

Regards
Christian

Last edited by saedelaere (2010-08-08 10:58:31)

fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

Sounds interesting - I will have to remember this and give it a try when you support DVB (I have a Hauppauge Nova-TD-500)

jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

I have a Hauppauge PVR350 and I am *very* happy with tv-viewer. It's definitely the best tv app I found for this device. I'm particularly enjoying the timeshift and scheduled recording features.

Great to hear that it is now available as a pkgbuild from AUR - thx to saedelaere!

mandalic

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 43

Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

I have Sabrent analog TV card (card=42), and while TVTime works just fine, tv-viewer, unfortunately, is not working... GUI starts up OK, everything seems fine, but it's not working
Any suggestions?

saedelaere

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Registered: 2009-04-24

Posts: 30

Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

I have Sabrent analog TV card (card=42), and while TVTime works just fine, tv-viewer, unfortunately, is not working... GUI starts up OK, everything seems fine, but it's not working
Any suggestions?

Hi,

TV-Viewer only supports devices with a build-in hardware mpeg encoder. A rule of thumb is, what is working in TVTime does not work in TV-Viewer and vice versa. Currently I do not plan to support such devices. It would be no problem for watching TV, but recording and timeshift works completely different with those devices. That would mean a lot of extra work, currently I can not afford to invest time in this task.

Regards

mandalic

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 43

Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

OK, thanks mate!

ronmon

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Registered: 2011-04-15

Posts: 48

Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

I've been using tv-viewer on my Gentoo desktop machine, but am running Arch on my laptop. The bzr build worked great.

Thanks!

angelsguitar

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From: Puerto Rico

Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 32

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Re: TV-Viewer, frontend to watch and record TV.

TV-Viewer works great with my PVR150.  Thanks for such a great piece of software. Really a lot less complicated than setting up a MythTV box if all you want is to record and watch TV.