Thanks for the suggestions. Because my recorder already records audio and video, I will continue a little more. I found the docs. My Ubuntu does not have Kaffeine and I cannot develop Klear, Kaffeine, etc. because Ubuntu's package manager tries to download non-existing packages. Missing are GTK2 devtools and KDE devtools. Xine-lib complains too. I tried the Windows digital-TV application which came with the USB DVB stick, but had to leave it. Klear is so far clearest DVB application I have seen. Check it and learn. I tried Kaffeine by opening some Ubuntu package manually, without installing it. UI is not clear, and Kaffeine tried to download something via internet and refused to work. VDR gave black fullscreen. Fullscreens are not nice. I'm not potato but I do write while recording or listening music from music channels. Xine has its own problems (and no recorder). Various Xine GUIs looks like what I don't need. Due lack of luck with Ubuntu, and due incomplete DVB applications, I have been two weeks without recorder with subtitle support. In Windows, it took only 10 minutes to have a working recorder. Guess why I'm still using Linux... I have four days left. I try the suggested nerd-kludges at the last minutes. Juhana _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb