I have a Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Expert TV tuner.
Is there a linux program with wich i can use the remote control?
How about a program for the radio ?
Is there anyother program better then TV Time or xawtv?
Thx!

AlexJ

Take a look at Mythtv

I suggest you do some research to make sure that your card is supported first

There's a good Fedora Core 3 How To Here

Not sure how that compares to FC 2 but it should at least point you in the right direction

If your card works for xawtv then it should be OK for Mythtv

Have fun, I did using Suse 9.2

Pete

MythTV is excellent, in fact it's a full-blown PVR. I use it, and run multiple front-ends on a home network. But it is a heavyweight, so if it's a bit much for what you require....

For simpler TV apps, try either Zapping (Gnome) or KDEtv; of the two, I've found Zapping quite good (it even offers simple recording capabilities, whereas KDEtv does not), but occasionally a bit flaky. KDEtv is nice and stable. Neither seem to offer the picture quality of TV-Time though (which I reckon is as good as I've seen in Linux).

As for remote control - got to admit I haven't had much luck here on my (cheap) 7134-based card. You could look at LIRC perhaps?

I've also had no luck with the radio on my card, but have tried Kradio; I'm sure there will be a Gnome equivalent.

LIRC uses an ubs (serial ) infrared,right? Because i don't see anything about using the tuner's infrared

From the basic research I did, I think it's possible to use certain TV card remotes with LIRC, but I wasn't successful with it.

I'd suggest doing some googling around the subject, read up on LIRC and see what's possible...