Petter, Thank you for replying. > You can use mplayer or xine > mplayer /dev/video0 > xine fifo://dev/video0... > But you can't change channels from these programs, you have to use > ivtv-tune from the command line. I know what you are telling me is what I need to do, but I'm afraid you've gone over my head a bit.
Is there a more beginner friendly howto for using Xine to access TV channels? I attempted to open Xine with the command you suggested, and all I got was a window with a black screen, and it was completely unresponsive to any mouse input. I couldn't even close the window. I had to press [ctrl]+C in the terminal window to stop the process. The only .lircrc file I could find were associated with Tvtime: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate .lircrc /usr/share/doc/tvtime/html/example.lircrc /usr/share/doc/tvtime/examples/example.lircrc Even if I could find the file, I'm not sure how I would know what frequencies are correct for my location, Japan. So I looked on Google to try and see how to set up the files you recommend. I came across this command: scantv -a -o scanout ... which allowed me to choose a Japan broadcast option, but then when searching for stations, it just did this: invalid value for input: television valid choices for "input": "Tuner", "Composite 0", "Composite 1", "S-Video 0", "S-Video 1" scanning freqencies... ?? 44.00 MHz (- ): | no ?? 44.25 MHz (- ): | no ?? 44.50 MHz (- ): | no ?? 44.75 MHz (- ): | no ... it went on like this for a while without finding anything. Perhaps someone could be more explicit in what to do, or point me to a resource which can explain a little more clearly what to do. Thank you for your time. -- Dave M G _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
