Greetings all,
I recently switched from Windows to linux and I am currently running kubuntu 7.10. I received a Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i) pci card from my family, and I am having some trouble getting linux to recognizing this card. I was hoping to use myth tv to record some shows, but because I am rather new to the linux operating system, I thought I would subscribe to the mailing list on myth tv in order to get some help with this card.
Here's what I did so far, and my results.
I downloaded, extracted, sudo make, sudo make install, and sudo make menuconfig this file
http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2
per the advice of people on the myth tv mailing list. I believe myth tv sees the card, but when I scan for channels, nothing comes up (I am doing over the air broadcasting). I guess my questions are several fold.
1) How do I know linux found my card and that it's operating correctly besides being able to see TV on my screen?
2) I'm to the point now that I really don't care if I record TV shows (mostly it was football) but I want to be able to watch TV on my system, would Kaffeine be better for this? I read somewhere that kaffeine was a lot easier to set up than myth tv.
3) If I get one program to work with the pci card (kaffeine, myth tv, ect) would I be able to use the other programs to watch shows?
Forgive all my questions, I am rather new to linux, but I feel a fast learner.
Thanks.
I recently switched from Windows to linux and I am currently running kubuntu 7.10. I received a Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i) pci card from my family, and I am having some trouble getting linux to recognizing this card. I was hoping to use myth tv to record some shows, but because I am rather new to the linux operating system, I thought I would subscribe to the mailing list on myth tv in order to get some help with this card.
Here's what I did so far, and my results.
I downloaded, extracted, sudo make, sudo make install, and sudo make menuconfig this file
http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2
per the advice of people on the myth tv mailing list. I believe myth tv sees the card, but when I scan for channels, nothing comes up (I am doing over the air broadcasting). I guess my questions are several fold.
1) How do I know linux found my card and that it's operating correctly besides being able to see TV on my screen?
2) I'm to the point now that I really don't care if I record TV shows (mostly it was football) but I want to be able to watch TV on my system, would Kaffeine be better for this? I read somewhere that kaffeine was a lot easier to set up than myth tv.
3) If I get one program to work with the pci card (kaffeine, myth tv, ect) would I be able to use the other programs to watch shows?
Forgive all my questions, I am rather new to linux, but I feel a fast learner.
Thanks.
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