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Idea #1972: Better TV-Tuner software support

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #160: Better/easier video card drivers installation and configurability..
Written by sid350 the 1 Mar 08 at 00:20. Category: Multimedia. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Now we have only one *normal* program to watch the TV - TVTime. But it can't work on AMD/ATI videocards, it can not scan PAL and SECAM channels at the same time, it can't show list of current tv-programs. There are many other disadvantages, but picture is good.

Zapping - crashes on pressing Preferences button, can't work with ATI etc.

KDETV - can't work with ATI etc.

XAWTV - can't work with ATI, interface is unusable etc.

Many of the videocapturing programs work only with V4L, but don't work with V4L2.

Current situation with TV-Tuner is sad, that's the idea. Sorry for my english.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #1972
Written by sid350 the 1 Mar 08 at 00:20.
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sid350 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:22
I said AMD/ATI cards - of cource i mean newer ATI cards R5++

rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 23:19
The support for TV-tuners has landed into Totem afaik and should be released soon.

ksiads wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 18:31
This seems to be a "pass the buck" issue in all Linux distros. It's equally impossible to pin ATI down to a reason for not supporting their hardware outside of Win/Mac.

If I could get support for my PCIx ATI TV card I'd probably never boot Windows again.

I know it sounds like a dumb thing but I like having the news in a small browser window on my screen when I'm working.


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