There is currently no media-player that allows channel switching with ivtv based cards known to me (except for mythtv, but it is just to big for just watching tv). E.g. VLC can play a stream from Hauppauge PVR Cards, but you cannot change the channel without some freaky work in the console. tv-viewer (see link above) is a GUI that makes you able to switch channels and have some kind of TV-App for those cards. Unfortunately KDETV (e.g.) does not work with my PVR 150. Maybe it is possible to have this app in portage. I like it very much and it is in active development. Sorry if i have done something wrong with my request. Im not even sure if such requests are wanted here. Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > There is currently no media-player that allows channel switching with ivtv > based cards known to me (except for mythtv, but it is just to big for just > watching tv). No kidding. I'll take a look at this one.
mplayer now supports it. Is this still wanted?
(In reply to comment #2) > mplayer now supports it. Is this still wanted? > i would appreciate it. I'm glad to see that mplayer now supports it as well. But TV-Viewer supports scheduled recordings, has a good small GUI and can scan for channels automatically. I haven't found a similar GUI for mplayer's new capabilites so far (well tv-viewer is now based on mplayer) It is very well documented (see http://home.arcor.de/saedelaere/doc/help/TV-Viewer_0.8.x_userguide_en.html#table_of_contents) and still in active devolpment. If you have another good "in-portage" GUI, please let me now. But at the moment I would be very happy to see tv-viewer in portage. Martin
Created attachment 222381 [details] ebuild for media-tv/tv-viewer-0.8.1
Created attachment 222385 [details, diff] Fixes access violation when an instance of tv-viewer has already been installed. This patch removes a line within tv-timer installer script which tries to remove the symlink /usr/bin/tv-viewer if it exists and thus evokes an access violation. The symlink will be removed by emerge anyway so the offending line is not needed.
(In reply to comment #4) > Created an attachment (id=222381) [details] > ebuild for media-tv/tv-viewer-0.8.1 > This is my first ebuild so please have a look at it. It uses the installer script of tv-viewer. I could successfully emerge tv-viewer on amd64. But there is a bug: When starting playback there is sound but no picture. Although there is sound and picture if mplayer is called via command line: mplayer /dev/video1 I will send a bug report upstream and test the ebuild on x86.
(In reply to comment #6) > I will send a bug report upstream. > Bug report is here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2964909&group_id=238442&atid=1106486
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > I will send a bug report upstream. > > > Bug report is here: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2964909&group_id=238442&atid=1106486 > will be fixed in 0.8.2 and is caused by non-english mplayer compilations http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3116473&group_id=238442&atid=1106486
(In reply to comment #8) > will be fixed in 0.8.2 and is caused by non-english mplayer compilations > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3116473&group_id=238442&atid=1106486 > Thank you Martin for finding this bug. I had this line in /etc/make.conf LINGUAS="de en" and changed this to LINGUAS="en de" After recompiling mplayer it worked.
Created attachment 255445 [details] Ebuild for the latest stable version (0.8.1.1) Ebuild for the latest stable version (0.8.1.1). The patch used for 0.8.1 is no longer needed.
