I just want to watch tv in a window with my Hauppauge 1600

[troy7]

Maybe this doesn't exist - but I'm looking for an app that will let me watch TV on my computer with my Hauppauge 1600 tv tuner card. I get digital tv from an antenna. I was using this in an XP box, but thought I'd try to upgrade. I've checked out MythTV, tvheadend, XBMC - tvheadend was close, but only work with analog signals. I don't want to dedicate my computer for this, I just want to watch TV when I'm not using it for NetFlix or movies in VLC.

Any suggestions, posts I missed, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

[deadflowr]

Is tvtime still available?

Or useful?

[troy7]

Thanks for the suggestion of tvtime. I checked into it - the Hauppauge 1600 used the ivtv driver - which is mpeg2 based. Tvtime doesn't support mpeg2 - so couldn't watch live tv with that. At least that is how I read it.

[deadflowr]

Don't know if something like me-tv would work.
There's also Kaffeine.

There are a couple of others, which I have forgotten about.

[Bucky Ball]

Thread moved to Multimedia & Video.

Me-TV. That's it. Has auto-scan so you don't need to set that up. It's in the repos. Install it and try.

(deadflowr ninja-ed me!)

PS: With the dongle plugged in, run this in a terminal:

lsusb

Please post the result back here.

[MartyBuntu]

Me-TV or Kaffeine.

Both very easy to setup.

[MartyBuntu]

lsusb

Please post the result back here.

Should be: lspci

The 1600 is a PCI card.

[Bucky Ball]

Should be: lspci

The 1600 is a PCI card.

All good. My mistake. The result of that, then, please ...

[howefield]

....VLC.

That'll do it.

[troy7]

Here's my output from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82975X Memory Controller Hub
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82975X PCI Express Root Port
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GDH (ICH7R/ICH7DH) SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV515 [Radeon X1300/X1550]
01:00.1 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV515 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] (Secondary)
05:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder
3f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)