Re: [Bulk] Re: TV over the internet

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William Case wrote:
> Hi Bill;
> 
> On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 15:02 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">William Case wrote:
>>> Hi Tim;
> 
>>> I have a TV tuner card with my computer connected to my cable.  It's
>>> great.  I prefer it to having my computer connected to my TV.
>>>
>> What application do you use for watching? I've been looking for something user 
>> friendly to give some people still on FC4 because they can understand xawtv and 
>> all the easy to use applications stopped working. They rejected MythTV at the 
>> point where it said "have your DBA set up a database..." and I have not found 
>> anything which can handle clear-QAM, over the air digital, and NTSC without 
>> asking for user entered channel frequencies in MHz or other things these people 
>> aren't about to do.
>>
>> Note: even if I was willing to set it up for them for free, they would expect 
>> support at the same price, advice I give them, time consuming work not so much.
>>
> I use TVTime.  It does one thing only, but it does it well.  It gives me
> my cable TV.
> 
> It is easy to install and configure and just keeps on ticking.
> 
> (Actually it does more than one thing, but there is no doubt that it's
> main purpose is to run a TV tuner card for TV viewing.)
> 
Huh, that stopped working for me about FC10, I was told it had to do woth the 
kernel drivers switching to DVB access. Or maybe that was only recent cards, I 
should dig out my oldest TV cards and see if any still works.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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