how can I watch TV with xine ?
 

hello everybody
I'm a just beginner

I want to watch TV just with xine,
but I don't know how configure xine.
so I look for infomation in xine.sf.net,but I got nothing.

And I wanna record the TV programs

how could I do them?

thanks very much

I not sure that xine can be used to watch a quick google search does not come up with anything on it at least. You can use mplayer to watch tv from the card with something like this.

Changing the norm= to your TV standard and the input= to the source you want on the card eg. tuner, composite, svideo ... 0, 1, 2 is how they are usually numbered. For recording the little of it I do I have used XDTV with good results you can watch the program as it is being recorded or you could setup something like MythTV.

What distro are you using? Put this in your profile, and we can help you better.
What TV card do you have?

I have some instructions Here on setting up a BT8xx TV card on Ubuntu. You should be able to follow the general steps with any card though.

You can use Kaffine to watch TV - if the correct drivers for your TV card are loaded then it should automatically detect it. You can scan for channels, and then watch TV.

I would suggest MythTV. It is quite straightforward to install, but involves lots of steps. It is well worth the effort though.

I hope this helps
--Ian

but the dialog titled "TV/Analog Video parameters" can popup when I select the menu "settings->tv analog...".
the broadcast system,channel and analog standard etc can be set in this interface,so I think the xine can be used to watch TV

thank you very much
My Card is philips saa7130,analog standard is PAL,
linux is fedora5 in PC.
I could watch TV by tvtime,but I want to do it by xine.
I have search infomation in google about it,
and I get some of command line "xine v4l://" and "cat /dev/video0|xine stdin:/".
I try to do them, then I get errors "there is no input plugin to handle v4l://. the MRL syntax wrong of file/stream source doesn't exist"

Well it may show it but I just tried here and I can't find a way to make it work as far as I can tell xine and by extension kaffeine only work with DVB cards not normal tv cards. Have you tried any other apps like the XDTV I suggested.