Ok, TVTime don't work, Thanks for your cooperation!, but, what I really
want to do is streaming live TV with VLC, Where is the problem VLC o
ivtv or v4l?

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 15:53 -0600, Jon Winters wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Juan Flores Lizana wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > When i try to watch tv with tvtime ( tvtime-1.0.1-0.fc4.1 )system  says
> > ivtv: Invalid argument
> > Cannot open capture device /dev/video
> 
> You might have missed this over at the tvtime web site:
> 
> "The ivtv driver supports cards that provide high quality MPEG2 encoded 
> video. This cards are ideal for PVR systems. However, tvtime has no MPEG2 
> decoding capabilities or audio playback code, and therefore cannot be 
> used to watch live TV from these cards."
> 
> Lots of folks on this list use MythTV.  I'm not one of'em.  I keep it real 
> simple.   To watch tv I do this:
> 
> cat /dev/video0 > tv.mpg
> 
> Then:
> 
> mplayer tv.mpg
> 
> This gives you the added benefit of being able to hit the space bar and 
> "pause live tv."  :-)
> 
> Scheduled recording is handled by cron and a small shell script.
> 


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