How do I get a TV app working in FC5?

Frelov · 09-28-2006, 05:37 PM

I don't know if this goes in this forum or not but I figured I'd start here.

I want to get my tv-tuner working, I've tried several tv apps through yum with no success.

I'm not very literate on compiling things etc. I do good to follow a set of instructions and using YUM.

I have a home grown computer with an MSI mother board with an AMD Athlon XP 1.8 ghz processor, 1 gig of ram, and an ati all-in-wonder 128 agp pro (32mb) video card installed.
I have a 2nd video card available, ati all-in-wonder radeon 9000, if needed.

I have FC5 set up according to www.stanton-finley.net and the 3d accelleration set up for the ati card as described in the howto. I use only KDE for the desktop environment.

Does anyone know of a decent guide on how to get television successfully working in fedora core 5 with an ATI tv tuner?

Thanks.

Jongi · 09-29-2006, 12:48 PM

Do a search for Jarod Wilson's MythTV HOWTO. At the least it will give you a good idea of the direction you should be heading.

Frelov · 09-30-2006, 02:46 PM

Thank you. I will search for this and see if I can get something working.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jongi

Do a search for Jarod Wilson's MythTV HOWTO. At the least it will give you a good idea of the direction you should be heading.

Frelov · 10-12-2006, 04:06 PM

just thought I'd post an update. MYTHTV is geared more toward TIVO style actions from what I can tell. I didn't find anything that helped me get TV viewing working with my setup.

Hitboxx · 10-13-2006, 03:45 AM

Have you tried TVTIME? Simply the best

Jongi · 10-15-2006, 01:06 PM

xdtv is pretty good as well.

Code:

[jongi:~#] cat /etc/yum.repos.d/xdtv.repo
[xdtv]
name=XdTV233
baseurl=http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/download/yum/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0

These are the xdtv related files I have installed

Code:

[root:~#] yum list xdtv*
Installed Packages
xdtv.i386                                2.3.3-1.fc5            installed
xdtv-OSD-font.i386                       2.3.3-1.fc5            installed

So you could do a yum --enablerepo xdtv install xdtv xdtv-OSD-font

This assumes of course that you created /etc/yum.repos.d/xdtv.repo