TV Tuner Settings

If you want a full-featured, Tivo like system for your tuner, try MythTV: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV & mythtv.org

For help with tvtime, the forums are full of a wide variety of posts regarding instruction, configuration, and errors: http://www.google.com/search?q=tvtime+year%3A2009+site%3Aubuntuforums.org

For help with tvtime try its man pages. From a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) type 'man tvtime' (without the single quotes). Near the bottom, there should be a listing of other, related programs & files. You can usually do 'man tvtime.conf' or something similar to learn about the configuration file tvtime uses.

lirc will get your infra-red remote control working: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallLirc/Hardy is the newest documentation and includes instructions for mythtv as well.

Try running the program from the terminal ('tvtime') and posting any errors it spits out.

Usually, hardware drivers (in Linux they are usually kernel modules) are installed by default, but on occassion you might have to load them manually. The tvtime/mythtv documentation should help with that. You can find some useful documentation/information via the 'man <program/configuration file>' commands or by opening the program and going to the Help menu and selecting Contents (or hit the F1 key).

Point being: without any actual errors or anything to indicate where you are having trouble, it is hard to help out. Running the program in the terminal (as stated above) and posting any errors/warnings should be a good place to start.

Hi Derek

Thanks for your help. I Installed MythTV. I am facing problem in giving entire details for configuring the data. And there is no option of India in the drop down list where it asks the region and about channel details. Has anyone from India tried this ? Will anyone be able to help me out in setting the details. I am using Tata Sky Dish TV Connection.

Jagdeep

Jagdeep

Does your linux system see the built in tuner?

Mythtv require many manual configuration editing to work. I suggest you install mythbuntu linux on your system. Mythbuntu has mythtv built in and will configure most of the things by default out of the box.

Regards
Onkar

Thank Onar99.
Can I direcly upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to Mythbuntu ?
Will there be some affect on the performace ?
How can I upgrade ? Like directly by entrying in Terminal Window some command.

Thanks for your help. Please let me know what to do.

Thanks,
Jagdeep(Jaggi)

yes and no

Yes-you can install "mythbuntu control centre" utility via synaptic package manager and then use this tool to install mythbuntu BUT you will have some issue to resolve the SQL database access issues.

This is not simple to resolve for a beginner therefor not very keen on this method.

I recommend clean install of mythbuntu and then you can install Ubuntu desktop on mythbuntu via control centre.
This way you will have benefits of both systems.

Onkar

hi Onkar

Thanks for ur help....
i did... do what u asked me 2! but did not get proper answer.
How do I know it is able to check out my hardware!

Thanks
Jaggi

lsusb will list all the usb hardware devices in the system
lspci will list pci devices

Check the output of two commands if your tv card is listed there.

If you find a TV card listed there then see its configured/supported by the Ubuntu linux with "dmesg".

dmesg |grep -i cardname

Here is mine

dmesg |grep -i hauppauge
[ 0.000000] Centaur CentaurHauls
[ 10.870236] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[ 11.720022] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in warm state.
[ 11.720382] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T)
[ 12.386887] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T)
[ 12.930962] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully initialized and connected.

onkar