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terry_gardener
May 3rd, 2008, 01:06 PM
I have not seen this done before and was just wondering as i have just did a google search and found loads of tv software out there.

what tv software do you all use and why?

i will start.

i use tvtime because the picture quality is really good and mythtv for its pvr features. mainly use tvtime though as i am not that bothered about pvr facilities.
ice60
May 3rd, 2008, 01:29 PM
i watch loads of tv and videos, but i use flash streaming sites :|

this probably isn't what you are talking about, i don't use it, and it uses P2P -
http://popey.com/Zattoo_Player_for_Ubuntu
http://zattoo.com/
Fedz
May 3rd, 2008, 02:44 PM
I also use sites streaming media eg: wwiTV (http://wwitv.com/portal.htm) and YouTube (http://youtube.com) :).
moeFinley
May 3rd, 2008, 04:10 PM
I found Kaffeine to be the easiest to setup and use for DVB-T. I've tried MythTV/Mythbuntu a couple of times now and it's waaaaaaaay to complicated and overloaded with features.

I'm going to try this pretty soon.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
klange
May 3rd, 2008, 04:21 PM
My AIW has no support, so I don't use any TV programs with it... Instead I use a TV.
Kingsley
May 3rd, 2008, 04:25 PM
I used torrents.
teet
May 3rd, 2008, 05:20 PM
MythTV. I can't stand commercials. Mythbuntu makes it a snap to set up provided you have supported hardware.

TV-time was great when I had my leadtek software-based tv-tuner. It was fast, light, and the picture quality was outstanding. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my PVR-150...oh well.

-teet
moeFinley
May 3rd, 2008, 08:28 PM
Mythbuntu makes it a snap to set up provided you have supported software.

Supported software? I've never been able to get it to tune the channels properly.
teet
May 3rd, 2008, 09:04 PM
Supported software? I've never been able to get it to tune the channels properly.

oops. typo. should have said "supported hardware"

The hauppauge pvr 150 works out-of-the-box with mythbuntu.

-teet
qazwsx
May 3rd, 2008, 09:11 PM
Kaffeine. Simply the easiest and stable app for DVB. Well sometimes I use mplayer via CLI withot X (because it is so cool ;)).
For record encodings I use scripts that use mencoder (x264), oggenc and package stuff with mkvmerge.