TV/PVR Notes
From AstroArch
Using TV Cards
Here are some quick start guides for using various hardware TV Tuner/Capture Cards. Tuners and capture cards work differently as Tuner cards can be used by TVTime while Capture cards can be used by anything including MythTV.
TV Tuner: Quick Start Guide for Pinnacle pcHDTV
Capture: Quick Start Guide for Hauppauge PVR-150/250/350/500
For both however you should first add the following repositories:
Setting up Repositories
Using the above repository install the following:
yum -y install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-doc smplayer tcl tk tkimg kdocker
There is a TCL/TK tool named TV-Viewer that you can use to view and control TV channels when using mplayer to display the video. For some devices xawtv, kdetv, TVtime, and kaffeine do not display the video properly. mplayer often will work when these do not.
