tv time

[DachaArh]

I have a problem with tv time and my tv card which is : K-World Multimedia PVR-TV 7131

I installed tv time and when I start it up I see this window :



is there a way to watch tv on fedoras with this card, on windows everything works with no problem

[DachaArh]

this is the error I get when I start tvtime via terminal :

Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/dachaarh/.tvtime/tvtime.xml"
videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/video0: No such file or directory
mixer: Can't open device /dev/mixer, mixer volume and mute unavailable.

I can't find this file : /etc/modprobe.conf
I think it needs to be edited for tv to work....

[sideways]

pac207 is a webcam driver I think (module gpsca-pac207), post the output of

lspci -v | awk '/Multimedia/,/^$/'
lsmod | egrep 'saa|pac'

the webcam may be hogging the video device, so you may just need to do something like (as root)

rmmod gpsca-pac207
modprobe saa7134

depending on the tvcard chipset.

Or specify the video device on the command line 'tvtime --device /dev/video1'

[sideways]

and /dev/mixer requires snd-mixer-oss, but I would hope tvtime can be configured to use alsa

modprobe snd-mixer-oss

[DachaArh]

when I type

modprobe saa7134

in terminal , nothing happens after that, should I type something else after that...

I know I should add modules saa7134 and bttv, but do not know how to do that in fedora since I do not have /etc/modules.conf file, I have modprobe.d folder but I don't know how to register new modules ....

[DachaArh]

I did

modprobe snd-mixer-oss

and now it seems that I have sound, but I do not have picture yet....

I edited etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml and so now I have video1 not video0 for my device....

I have no errors while running tvtime via terminal :

Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/dachaarh/.tvtime/tvtime.xml

but I still do not have picture....

[DachaArh]

I did it, I added saa7134.conf and bttv.conf to /etc/modprobe.d and restarted, and now it seems to work, now I'm scanning for channels

[sideways]

if you have trouble finding channels run 'tvtime-scanner -n pal' (or ntsc) from a command line, then in the channel setup change the frequency table to 'custom'

[DachaArh]

I did find all the channels, thanks alot

[sideways]

I came across further issues when testing tv playback with a radeon card (x800) on F11

TVTime is very cpu intensive in F11 with the radeon driver unless you specify 'nomodeset' in the kernel boot line. Seems to cause congestion on the pci bus, without 'nomodeset' I have to specify a ridiculously small pixel width (default is 720)

tvtime --inputwidth=180

xawtv requires you to specify LANG=C otherwise you get an error about fonts, you must run it like this:

LANG=C xawtv

mplayer works best of all for me with a radeon card (no need for 'nomodeset' unless I run it fullscreen, bizarre??) eg

mplayer tv://26

[JEO]

and /dev/mixer requires snd-mixer-oss, but I would hope tvtime can be configured to use alsa

modprobe snd-mixer-oss

In case you are still wondering, you can configure tvtime to use the alsa mixer, I have a line in my ~/.tvtime/tvtime.xml file:

<option name="MixerDevice" value="hw:0/Aux"/>

or the program can be started with

tvtime --mixer=hw:0/Aux

I have the sound output from my tv tuner card connected to my sound card's aux input. The hw:0 is necessary to access the card mixer because the alsa mixer with the name "default" is pulseaudio.