Help again - WAS Re: [ILUG] cheap linux compatible tv tuner cards

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Pangurban wrote:

> I have the card working now.
> 
> options saa7134 card=3 tuner=1
> Is what I put in /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134

Cool. You might put this info on the wiki then as your card isn't there.

  http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Saa7134_devices_(saa713x)

> Had my first success with mplayer from the command line - is the a TV
> GUI for mplayer?

There are a couple here:

  http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html

If you're going to use mplayer/mencoder for tv and you want to have it
change the channels (via hotkey or by mplayer tv://BBC1), you might want to
rebuild mplayer with the updated channel list for Ireland.  I presume this
applies also to mplayer with a tv gui.

  http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-August/thread.html#45561
  http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-August/thread.html#45588

They compile this information in rather than read it from file at runtime
which is a bit of a hassle, but it's not too much hassle to rebuild
packages on debian/ubuntu.

If you don't want to do that you can always use:
	v4lctl setstation CH4
which will use your .xawtv channels file.

Gavin