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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:26:58 -0400, William wrote:

> Hi Michael
> 
> Do you mind if I keep banging away at this with your off-list
> assistance?  I will not be offended if you respond that this issue
> should remain on-list or that you have given up on my particular
> problem.

It's better to keep it on the public list, so other users can
read it and possibly add comments.

> 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.

[...]

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.]