Yes vivek, there are drivers and really good programs to view tv and record from tv. You will be surprized that the quality and functioality of these programs will be much better than the bundled software that you get with your tv card.
If you are using a linux distro based on the 2.4 series and are using stock kernel, then the drivers are already available in your kernel. just issue the command modprobe bttv. this should load the tv card driver and other related drivers. if you have a radio tuner in the tv card that should also work. Look for the program called xawtv. this program suite has all the necessary software to view tv , tune and listed to radio and also has support for lircd. Lircd is a software you can use for controlling the linux box with a infra remote. you can use the remote that comes with your TV. Xawtv can show the tv on X, DGA mode in X , GL mode in X, vesa mode, frame buffer and text mode can also be used if you do not have X. and also check the text mode where xawtv can show tv using ASCII art text using AAlib library. You can also use xawtv to record avi and qt format videos. If you are using mandrake ot suse the control centre hardware detection module can automatically install the tv tuner card and you will just need to scan the channels and use the tv. There are other tv viewing software like kwintv, a kde based tv software and effecttv is a program for generating special fx while watching TV. mplayer and realproducer can also record from tv input. Make sure you use the latest version of XFree86 and also a recent distro to get the best out of your tv. note that you will have set the frequency table to PAL. select region as western europe in xawtv.Also start X as a normal user and make sure the DGA and v4l-config commands has suid root. the Xvideo extension should also be available on X for good quality fullscreen mode. Also configure lircd,lircmd irexec to use the remote not just to control the tv bu any linux app like xmms. check the folowing urls http://bytesex.org/xawtv/ http://www.lirc.org/ http://www.kwintv.org/ hope this helps. regards Sanjeev --- "vivek.kadambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I have pixelview play TV/Pak TV tuner card.are there any drivers > and UI > to view TV in Linux ? > Please help. > > Regards > > Vivek Kadambi > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
