TV tuner Card

tvks · 04-16-2007, 12:48 AM

Hi,

I have a TV tuner Card (Pinnacle) with a M$-Windows setup CD. This CD contains all the software related to this Card. A software is also available to track all the channels and finally the TV Viewer.

How do I go about in fedora ?

Is there any software (pref. open source) available ?

Please guide me

!

Regards,

tvks

budword · 04-16-2007, 06:06 AM

I'm not sure if your card is supported or not, but if it is, this tutorial did help me quite a bit. Others might be able to help a little more if you post the exact model of tv card you have.

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

Best of luck...

David

samstar · 04-17-2007, 02:49 AM

If you mean that you want a tuner program to watch channels, there are plenty.

Try searching for these programs: MoTV, Zapping, kdetv, and xawtv.

If they don't work, you'll need to provide more information on what capture card you have.

Sam

Electro · 04-17-2007, 03:30 AM

Posting with out providing any information such as the model of the card and/or /sbin/lspci does not get you far when getting help on the internet. Please provide this information so I or someone else can help you.

Use tvtime for SAA713x and CX2388x based cards.

Use xawtv for bt878 based cards.

Use mplayer for PVR (MPEG-1/2) cards but only if using kernel version 2.6.18 or higher and mplayer was compiled to support ivtv.

Zapping, KDEtv, and others do not work well for testing and they are buggy.

carl0ski · 04-21-2007, 08:48 AM

my favourite TV program is
Kaffeine
(the default video player in KDE)
http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/inde...features&id=13

only works with Digital TV Tuners though
which you most likely have.