On 2024-05-23 12:44:43 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > On 5/22/24 11:44 PM, dep via tde-users wrote: > > The Hauppauge TV tuner arrived, and while it was a little fiddly -- and > > the author of the user guide makes no distinction between important and > > unimportant -- I got Kaffeine running nicely, with nice, clear pictures, > > EPG, everything . . . except sound. Not a peep, but an occasional > > crackle, which is disconcerting. > > > > It seems as if Kaffeine is abandonware, and there is little online about > > it, so I am on my own unless someone here knows the application, or > > another app that can stream live local TV via a tuner dongle. > > > > Does anyone? > > Once upon a time I used Kaffeine to live stream TV. Somewhere along the > way Kaffeine stopped working for me. I have memories between 0.87 and > 0.88. Perhaps comparing the code between the two versions might reveal > something. > > I just tried Kaffeine again. The software crashes with just about > anything I try. The errors are related to xine-parts. If I remember > correctly originally Kaffeine was designed with Xine as a backend. Xine > is maintained code, but my guess is Kaffeine code needs to be updated > with the latest Xine code. There is support for gstreamer, but streaming > TV requires the Xine backend. When I try to use it to listen to audio with Xine it crashes; with gstreamer is complains that it can't find it. > > I tested Xine to verify everything functions. I have xine-lib-1.2.11 and > xine-ui-0.99.13 installed. I can play audio, video, and TV channels. > Xine does not have the most friendly interface so be patient. But at > least I affirmed that Xine is not the issue. > > At this point seems we're at a dead end without digging into Kaffeine code. > > Since those days of Kaffeine I have been using SMPlayer to test live TV. > I don't do that much because years ago I wrote my own shell script to > record channels. I am not much of a TV watcher and my recordings are > limited to old movies and an occasional PBC Nova show. The recordings > are watched with an old version XBMC on the living room TV. But I use > SMPlayer to test my TV capture cards. SMPlayer always take a long time > to initialize a TV stream but otherwise works. I also use SMPlayer to > watch short online videos I download with yt-dlp. > > SMPlayer does not scan TV channels automatically. That needs to be done > separately. I use a package named dvb-apps and use the scan command. The > command needs a list of the available channel frequencies, which for me > is ATSC. A functional Kaffeine can scan channels and oddly, through the > years I retained my ATSC scan results. > > Originally SMPlayer was a frontend to MPlayer but now also supports MPV. > Years ago when I stopped using Kaffeine and started using SMPlayer I > converted those Kaffeine channel scan files to a compatible MPlayer > channels.conf file. SMPlayer reads this file and then creates its own > channel list. While I can recommend SMPlayer to stream live TV, there is > some frontend work required to get everything functional. > > Once upon a time I tried VLC, but there were various usability issues I > did not like and now no longer remember. SMPlayer has always just worked > for me and I never tried VLC again. > > I always thought Kaffeine was a handy little tool. More friendly than any of the others I've tried, for sure. > I'd be willing to > help test patches if somebody started digging into the code. > Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
