Tvtime & Hauppauge Win TV Express problems
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Sep 20 20:03:56 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:43 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 01:39, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:42 +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> > > I think I've broken Tvtime twice. On FC2, and then on Kubuntu.
> > >
> > > The TV tuner card is Hauppauge Win TV Express, and has a Conexant Fusion
> > > 878a chip.
> >
> > Why not try a newer release of the OS?
>
> I have FC5 installed, but it's on the other machine, which is only has a
> 500MHZ cpu, so is unlikely to work. I do have a bit of spare harddrive space
> on the 1.3GHZ machine, so could put FC5 on that. I'm only on dialup, but do
> have all the FC5 updates saved from /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive
> on the same machine, but it means FTP'ing them to the 1.3Gig machine.
>
> The real question is Jeff, is what has gone wrong with Tvtime? I remove it
> using synaptic from either FC2 or Kubuntu. Now it's gone, and only the
> downloaded RPM, or DEB package remains in /var/cache/apt/archives. I checked
> for remaining files that hadn't been removed when I uninstalled it, but found
> nothing. In theory I should be able to reinstall it using the rpm, or deb
> that's in /var/cache/apt/archives, and get a new start for Tvtime, just like
> it had never been installed. Clearly though Tvtime has been interacting with
> other files, so everytime I reinstall it these other files it was interacting
> with are showing Tvtimes display just as it was before I uninstalled it,
> which is some sort of corrupted display.
>
Did you also delete the ~/.tvtime directory where tvtime shores its
personal configs? I have 2 files in there, stationlist.xml and
tvtime.xml
It is safe to delete that directory because the first time tvtime is
started it will recreate that one.
And, no I do not have an audio jumper installed for the Wintv Go card in
that machine.
I do have another card (pdhdtv 5500) that uses an audio cable to the
line in on my sound card in a different machine.
> The card isn't broken, as it still works on that other OS. I even tried
> installing the Win TV 2000 viewer onto wine in FC2. It installed OK, but
> there is a little, or big problem, however you want to view it, with a .dll
> when I try to run it. I've never been too happy with wine. Stuff will work
> that I'm not too bothered with, but the stuff I want to work won't. I'm not
> knocking wine, as it must be one hell of a problem getting Windoze apps to
> work on wine for the wine developers.
>
> Out of interest. Which chip is your Win TV GO using?
I will have to look at that this weekend.
> >
> > I just installed a WinTV Go card on a box with FC5 and TVTime works
> > flawlessly. I admit that I am in the US and thus using NTSC and not
> > SECAM but that is related to the tuner/driver and not the display.
> >
My point was that with FC5 the drivers for my card are already
available. With FC2 they are not and you have to jump through hoops to
get everything working.
> Nigel.
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