What app can i watch TV on

[Scrib]

Hi I'm a newby.

I have a freeview TV card and want to know what is the best application for watching TV on my Fedora 5 installation?

Is there one built into Fedora for example?

Or will I have to download one and "try" to install it?

[wdgiles]

http://fftv.sourceforge.net/
FFTV sounds like what you may be looking for.

[Jongi]

tvtime and xdtv for simple viewing. These are available from some repo which I cannot remember at this time.

mythtv and freevo if you wanna setup a HTPC.

I prefer mythtv myself.

EDIT: Meant to add this - do a google search for the bold part and fedora.

[wdgiles]

I wasn't going to recommend mythtv quite yet - didn't want to scare them away. You're right though, it's the best one out there. I just finished building my third mythtv box and it's finally working just the way I want it to. I knew there was another app I'd used, just couldn't remember the name. Thanks. bg

[Jongi]

tvtime is available from the core repository, as root:

# yum install tvtime

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xdtv will require that you do the following instructions as root.

My only change would be to change enable=1 to enable=0.

That would mean that for the yum command you would need to add the following option --enablerepo=xdtv

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For freevo and mythtv, you will have to hit the net and do a lot of reading up. However Jarod Wilson's MythTV HOWTO is very good.