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Shelnutt2

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I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 64bit. I can not get any TV viewing software to work. NMM doesn't see my tuner. I couldn't get gnomeTV to "make". freevo, wouldn't display channels, only got a blue screen. I've googled, and I think I've been through just about all of them. I'm at a loss.
 
do you ahve all the correct v4l drivers in the kernel? I haven't set up an analog tuner before, but I have setup my hdtv card. I think that XawTV is one of the "standard" apps for analog tv, so give that a try too.
 
splat said:
do you ahve all the correct v4l drivers in the kernel? I haven't set up an analog tuner before, but I have setup my hdtv card. I think that XawTV is one of the "standard" apps for analog tv, so give that a try too.

I followed this guide http://www.burghardt.pl/wiki/articles/pixelview_playtv_pro_pv-bt878p_9x

So I think I have the drivers working fine.

I've tried XawTV, it doesn't detect any channels. tvtime Doens't detect channels either. I've tried different settings, but the standard for cable is NTSC....In windows I have this problem.
 
splat said:
i just did a very quick search and found this:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bttv

I pretty much used the mythtv wiki to get my hdtv card working, so I would assume it has all the info you need to get your card working, whether you use mythtv or not.

*sigh* I follwed the wiki to the dot, still same problems. Although mythtv will no install for me (I installed it once but as programs weren't working I unstalled then.). It want to install some older packages than I already have, how would I force it to use the newer packages?
 
i don't know ubuntu well, but in Debian you could set your apt to use the testing tree, which is Etch right now, by editing your /etc/apt.conf (probably not the right file, but i think you get the idea). then run apt-get update, and then apt-get ugrade.
 
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