On Monday 18 September 2006 22:59, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 21:42, nigel henry wrote: > > I think I've broken Tvtime twice. On FC2, and then on Kubuntu. > > > > The TV tuner card is Hauppauge Win TV Express, and has a Conexant Fusion > > 878a chip. > > > > Tvtime is from Dag's repo, and is version-1.0.2-1.1.fc2.rf > > > > I put the card in the machine, an Aiii-Friend 1.3GHZ (Celeron) , with 1GB > > RAM. Installed Tvtime from Dag's repo onto FC2. > > > > All I got when running Tvtime was a blue screen, showing a "no signal", > > channel numbers, and that it was set for "Television". Channel scanning > > produced nothing, even with messing with the menu, changing between PAL, > > and SECAM, and changing the frequencies between France, and Europe. > > > > I now booted up Kubuntu, on the same machine, and installed Tvtime. Same > > situation. > > Have you tried xawtv? I don't have a tv card, but needed a tv app to work > with video capture. At first I had the same symptoms as you describe, > until someone told me that the configuration file may not have been written > to my /home directory. Every change I tried to make from the menus was > dropped, nothing changed. As advised, I created a .xawtv file in my home > directory with the following contents: > > [global] > ratio = 4:3 > freqtab = europe-west > pixsize = 80 x 24 > pixcols = 8 > jpeg-quality = 75 > keypad-ntsc = off > keypad-partial = off > osd = yes > osd-position = 30 , 20 > use-wm-fullscreen = no > > [defaults] > input = S-Video > norm = pal > capture = over > > If you can't get tvtime working you might try this. > > Anne Thanks for the feedback Anne. I installed xawtv on FC2, havn't created a .xawtv file in my /home/user directory yet, but even though it has created a menu item in KDE, when I click on it I don't get anything, just a bouncing cursor which fizzles out. I'll continue working on it. What I'm mainly concerned with, is why, having screwed up Tvtime, when I remove it, and reinstall it, it's still screwed up, and as far as I can see all config files were removed when I removed it, and the reinstall is done from the RPM that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, which should be clean and untouched. It's a bit annoying that if I want to watch TV on the computer, I have to use that other OS. Of course, I could just go upstairs and watch the TV, but it would be nice to get it going on the computer. Nigel.
