Watching TV under ubuntu
I had purchased a Hauppauge win tv pvr 150 tv tuner card last 6 months ago . The card was bundled with hauppage wintv application which ran fine on windows .However i use ubuntu and didn’t wanted to switch over to windows just for watching tv .I tried configuring myth tv for the card but it was a real pain and didn’t work . I was losing hope on watching tv on ubuntu when i met a thread over web which mentioned the capabilities of vlc . I did some searching over the net and figured out a way to watch my tv (using composite 1 ) input over ubuntu ,the trick was obviously using VLC . Here is the quick and dirty summary of what i did .
sudo apt-get install ivtv-utils
sudo v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 -i 2
Opened VLCÂ , Media-> opened capture device->capture mode PVR and click play (with norm as pal for me ).
Immediately my output started displaying on the VLC screen . Initially there was some flicker on the video displayed , but once i installed the latest nvidia drivers using following commands the flicker disappeared and a clear video was displayed .
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
