I found this old LifeView FlyTV Platinum card, put it in the computer and tried to make it work with Ubuntu. It gets recognized with
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But this is where I'm stuck. I know this might sound stupid, but, what now?
It is in, but what do I have to do to actualy watch TV? Is there any program for that that I have to install? Any more configuring to do? I can do anything, it's not a problem .
I recently bought a Samsung LED TV C5000 40", and I'm trying to watch an .mkv file from my pendrive, but it says, "Not Supported Video Codec".
I saw in the TV's user guide and it says it supports .mkv.
I don't know how to get the info about the mkv, but using "themonospot" I got:
- SubtitleTrack01 [eng]S_TEXT/UTF8
- VideoTrack01 V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC (1920x816)
- AudioTrack01 [eng]A_AC3- 48000 Hz - 6 channels
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I have a PVR-150 for recording TV shows.
I can record shows using this command:
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cat /dev/video0 > /mnt/raid/show.mpg
I can watch the show.mpg file while its recoding using VLC, Xine, Mplayer... pretty much any video player.
This is nice because i can pause, rewind, and fast-forward live TV, just like all the commercial DVRs out there.
The problem with this method is returning to "Live TV" mode. When using a commercial DVR, when you are fast-forwarding and reach "Live TV", the player stops fast-forwarding and begins playing the live TV in real-time. When doing the same thing with Xine or VLC, the player simply stops when you reach the EOF.
Is there a player that mimics this? When it get close to the EOF, it switches from Fast-Forward to play?
I used to have MythTV, but it way too bloated for what I want to do.
Somebody know some software for watching satellite tv on pc (linux)? For windows and mac is all bunch of software (e.g. one small list is on [URL]), but for linux I found just two (not available for South America and "just" with few hundreds channels).
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I'm not sure if my computer specs will help but here they are:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid 64-Bit
Intel Xeon X3210 2.13GHz Quad
4GB DDR2-800 RAM
ATI Radeon 4870 512MB Videocard
I just installed Ubuntu 10.4 today... but I�ve got a weird problem...
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When I want to play a movie from my HDD I get this (see attachment) with Mplayer and with VLC..Totem just doesn't want to play it..
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MM App :vlc , smplayer
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