Still having problems with my tv tuner -- need help

[Bill Davidsen]

William Case wrote:
> Thanks Gene;
> 
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 09 May 2009, William Case wrote:
>>> Hi;
>>>
>>> tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> You are aware that tvtime does not have a digital audio path aren't you?
>>
> Yes.  I am doing the whole thing through analog cable.
> 
>> In my case, the audio output of my card, a pcHDTV-3000, is jumpered to the 
>> microphone input on my audigy2 (sb0400 chipset), and the tvtime audio is then 
>> via the mic channel of my audio card.  The jumper is about 6" long.  Works 
>> great.  
> 
> 
>> But here in the US, we only have about 33 more days to use tvtime 
>> since its analog tv only.  We shut our own analog tx off for the last time at 
>> the end of the broadcast day, June 11th.
>>
> Here, in Canada its not for a couple of more years, if I remember
> correctly.  In any case I use a cable TV connection.
> 
>> Maybe this will give some impetus to get kaffiene finished, it is very 
>> unstable even when hand built from the 8.4 tarball, and the 8.3 rpms for 
>> fedora do not work at all, no means to configure a channel list, no docs on 
>> how to.  The scanner function is missing entirely in the rpms so for tv 
>> watching, sorry.  Even the 8.4 version has a very limited number of times you 
>> can change channels before it gloms onto 100% of the cpu, and it takes several 
>> minutes to locate it and give it a shot of 'kill -9' under those conditions.
>>
> I would have given up a while ago, but since it works fine in WindowsXP
> tv viewer, I can't stop tinkering with tvtime in Fedora.  I guess my
> options are limited to watching TV in Windows or working in Linux.  I
> was hoping to do both in Fedora.  I hate rebooting into Windows.
> 
FWIW i have had better luck with xawtv, and on top of all the other goodness of 
that program it has a record function. I know that the right incantation to 
ffmpeg will also produce a saved file, but life is short and the ffmpeg option 
list isn't.

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