Kplayer, Kmplayer, Mplayer, Xine possibly videolan, etc

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On 5/6/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the manuals, these programs are supposed to be able to display
> television signals from the tv card. One is instructed to set the program to
> open tv://#, where # is the desired channel number.
>  
>  This produces no output, simply a blank screen.
>  
>  Furthermore, kplayer, for example, fails to find and recognize /dev/video0,
> even though it is there and working under both zapping and tvtime.

does tvtime work?