On 21/11/14 19:00, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-11-21 07:46, Basil Chupin wrote:
At the same time, all our normal TV sets/recorders have correctly scanned for all the (new) digital channel frequencies - only VLC and Kaffeine are out of the loop.) Years ago, when my part of the world started to switch to digital terrestrial broadcast tv, however it is called, and as my existing analog tv card died, I bought an hybrid one, both digital and analog.
Tuning the digital channels was an horrible experience.
Apparently you had to download the list and frequencies and whatnot from somewhere and convert the format to whatever the Linux program wanted. Some could scan but had other problems, and the file could not easily be used on others.
The same computer, running Windows with the included card software, had no problems at all.
In the end, I gave up, removed the card, and bought an external tuner connected to a small flat display set up on the wall behind my desktop table, and never looked back. Sigh.
Interestingly, that external tuner runs Linux, and has no problems at all in finding all the stations by itself. But part of its software, specially the tuner part, is proprietary and very closed and protected.
Suggestions: try mythtv, it turns your computer into a media center. Only a media center, though, you can not run LO at the same time, no screen space. But at least it should be able to tune the stations, IF the card is supported.
We no longer have analog tv transmissions here, it is all digital. Some of the bandwidth is being converted for mobile communications usage about now. I have to say that it is a good thing, after all. On the other hand, digital radio is unknown, at least the kind that was tested on the UK. Only the kind shared with TV transmissions, and I have not seen standalone receivers anywhere)
Many thabks, Carlos, but see my reply to Malcolm (following). BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.3 & kernel 3.17.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org