I'm running Fedora 8 and I have a Hauppauge PVR-500 card. I just did a reload of my computer and I'm looking for something to watch TV with. I've had MythTV loaded before, but it's more than I want. Also, it tends to mess up other files on my computer because of the repositories (i.e. faad2).

I have the ivtv drivers loaded properly because I can get it working with:

mplayer /dev/video0

What I don't know how to do is select a different channel. I've also tried with VLC and Kaffiene. They look like they should be able to do it, but I've had no luck so far. You wouldn't think this would be that hard, but I've searched all over with no luck.

If anyone knows of a step-by-step guide for dummies, I'd be forever in your debt.

Thanks

have you looked into freevo. it might be too much for you sicne mythtv was but you should still check it out.

Tvtime is what I use.

I used to use TVtime with my old Hauppauge card on my old system. I really liked it, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Simple to use and easy to install. Unfortunately, it's not compatable with my card.

From the supported cards list under ivtv:


I looked into freevo. Wow, that's even worse for installing than MythTV.

For mplayer, you can specify your channel list like this (change australia to whatever):

...then scroll up/down the channels with the "h" and "k" keys on the keyboard.

This will probably give you alot of unused channles, so you can specify what channels you want with the channels option (see man mplayer):

good luck

Hi,

I am currently developing a small frontend for ivtv based tv-cards.

You may have a closer look at it here.

If anybody is using it please give me some feedback, especially which tv-card you are using is of interest for me.

Best Regards

Saedelaere