TV tuner, sound etc. -- what does this mean?

[William Case]

Hi Michael;

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 17:57 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:26:58 -0400, William wrote:
> 
> > Since I have no 'Line'
> 
> Your onboard audio doeso have 'Line' (analog audio input), but it's not
> connected with your tv card.
> 
> > the next obvious control choice I have in alsa is 'PCM'
> 
> Why? This is the "sample output volume". Unlike music players,
> tvtime doesn't output any samples.
> 
> [...]

Ooh !  Back to using 'Line'.

> Why do you insist on avoiding mplayer like the plague? It's available
> for Fedora at rpmfusion.org, and /dev/video1 ought to be of primary
> interest.  [Unless you want to look at mythtv instead.
> 
I have already downloaded mplayer.  Becasue of the experience I had the
last time I tried it, I wanted to get a few uninterrupted hours alone
with it.  The last few days have been taken up with other things.  So
will be today.  I will try to get mplayer going first thing in the
morning.

  
-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 22.3.1