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>Television Applications</TITLE
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NAME="APPS"
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>5. Television Applications</H1
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>Now that your kernel is configured, your devices have been configured, and your
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modules are inserted, you will also need an application to actually view or
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capture the images from your card.</P
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>5.1. Console-Based Applications</H2
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NAME="FBTV"
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>5.1.1. FbTV</H3
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>Fbtv is a console-only mode TV viewing program available for viewing on
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a framebuffer-video enabled system with a Bt8x8 card. If you don't know what
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a framebuffer is you can read the
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<A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Framebuffer HOWTO</A
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>. Fbtv is available from the Bttv homepage with
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<A
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HREF="http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Xawtv</A
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>.</P
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NAME="AATV"
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>5.1.2. AATV</H3
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HREF="http://n00n.free.fr/aatv/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>AATV</A
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> is a simple program
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to watch TV on a text console under Linux using aalib and a Bt8x8 card. While
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the graphics are enabled in ascii graphics only, the advantage is that you
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(or anyone) can watch television from anywhere over the internet using your
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local Bt8x8 hardware.</P
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>5.2. GUI-based Applications</H2
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>The following applications require a graphical user interface such as GNOME, KDE etc.</P
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NAME="XAWTV"
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>5.2.1. Xawtv</H3
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HREF="http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Xawtv</A
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> is arguably the best-known Linux application used for viewing TV from video sources including Bt8x8 devices; most Linux distributions have packaged
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versions. If you're not sure of your device configuration you probably ought
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to start with Xawtv and the <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>-hwscan</B
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option to check for suitable devices:
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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> $ xawtv -hwscan
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This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8)
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looking for available devices
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port 139-139
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type : Xvideo, image scaler
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name : NV17 Video Overlay
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port 140-140
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type : Xvideo, image scaler
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name : NV17 Video Texture
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port 141-172
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type : Xvideo, image scaler
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name : NV05 Video Blitter
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port 173-173 [ -xvport 173 ]
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type : Xvideo, video overlay
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name : NVIDIA Video Interface Port
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/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
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type : v4l2
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name : BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878))
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flags: overlay capture tuner</PRE
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>
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Now that you know your Bt8x8 device is available, try starting Xawtv:
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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> $ xawtv -device /dev/video0
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</PRE
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>
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Note that some Nvidia cards may confuse xawtv, so if you have one of these be
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sure to use the <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>-device</B
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> switch as above.</P
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NAME="MOTV"
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>5.2.2. Motv</H3
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>Motv is a Motif-based rewrite of Xawtv. Other than a more attractive
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interface, and is also found at <A
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HREF="http://www.bytesex.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>the Xawtv homepage</A
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>. It is otherwise identical to Xawtv.</P
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NAME="TVTIME"
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>5.2.3. TVtime</H3
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>TVtime is the ultimate application for those who want to watch TV using
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an application that doesn't get in the way and requires little or no
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configuration 'out of the box.' The homepage can be found at
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<A
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TARGET="_top"
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>the sourceforge TVtime homepage</A
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