[Ilugc] Watching TV on our gnu/linux box

[Joshua Immanuel]

Bhuvaneswaran <bhuvan at ubuntu.com> writes:


> I'm trying to watch TV on my gnu/linux box (FC4) from a cable TV
> connection.  I have a external TV tuner card (USB).  I use mythtv. I'd
> like to know what program to use to tune the channels and find the
> channel frequencies.  If anyone has a TV tuner card installed in a
> gnu/linux machine and is able to watch cable channels, i would
> appreciate any pointers.

I have internal pinnacle TV tuner card and I use xawtv it works
like a charm, try using it. A module called scantv comes along with
it for channel scan.

http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/

if u need more information about configuring and steps like that..

http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/handson/101091501.asp

Above all google for the information u need.

regards

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Joshua Immanuel