Tv Problem

Having upgraded from Suse 10.0 to Suse 10.3 on AMD 64bit, I am struggling to get my TV card going. According to xorg.conf I have got the ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RS480 5954) "on board" chip. The TV card is pixelview with the bttv chipset. This all worked ok on Suse 10.0. Does anyone know what the driver was ? Anyway both xawtv and kdetv are not working. They present with a mottled screen with no sign of activity - no signal. However tvtime is working. It has detected and saved a couple of channels which can be viewed. None active channels present a blue screen - a good sign. This is not the case with xawtv etc. What could be the difference ? I was about to blame the ATI fglrx driver. Not sure now.

Having upgraded from Suse 10.0 to Suse 10.3 on AMD 64bit, I am struggling to get my TV card going. According to xorg.conf I have got the ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RS480 5954) "on board" chip. The TV card is pixelview with the bttv chipset. This all worked ok on Suse 10.0. Does anyone know what the driver was ? Anyway both xawtv and kdetv are not working. They present with a mottled screen with no sign of activity - no signal. However tvtime is working. It has detected and saved a couple of channels which can be viewed. None active channels present a blue screen - a good sign. This is not the case with xawtv etc. What could be the difference ? I was about to blame the ATI fglrx driver. Not sure now.
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You guessed right, ATI drivers prevent several TV programs from working. You can use MplayerTV, a perl wrapper for mencoder.
At present I use Xorg 7.3 with open driver 'radeon' for my Radeon 9600 and all is working.

You guessed right, ATI drivers prevent several TV programs from working. You can use MplayerTV, a perl wrapper for mencoder.
At present I use Xorg 7.3 with open driver 'radeon' for my Radeon 9600 and all is working.
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Thanks, Is MplayerTV in the repositories ?

Thanks, Is MplayerTV in the repositories ?
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Find it here attached

Find it here attached
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I am getting an error trying to install the source package. In the first part the compilation proceeds ok. When running the program it aborts with an error "Can't locate Gtk2.pm" When I run locate Gtk2.pm I get
locate Gtk2.pm
/usr/share/fvwm/perllib/FVWM/Module/Gtk2.pm

snip.......
Installing mplayerTV...
`mplayerTV' -> `/usr/local/bin/mplayerTV'
install: cannot stat `mplayerTV.1': No such file or directory
Installing MPlayer PERL interface...
Writing Makefile for MPlayer
Manifying blib/man3/MPlayer.3pm
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/001_load....Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8/MPlayer-0.04/blib/lib/MPlayer.pm line 26.
Use of uninitialized value in -e at /home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8/MPlayer-0.04/blib/lib/MPlayer.pm line 26.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8/MPlayer-0.04/blib/lib/MPlayer.pm line 27.
t/001_load....ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=2, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.06 cusr + 0.03 csys = 0.09 CPU)
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MPlayer.pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/MPlayer.3pm
Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/MPlayer/.packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod


tv:/home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8 # mplayerTV
Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/local/bin/mplayerTV line 11.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mplayerTV line 11.

I am getting an error trying to install the source package. In the first part the compilation proceeds ok. When running the program it aborts with an error "Can't locate Gtk2.pm" When I run locate Gtk2.pm I get
locate Gtk2.pm
/usr/share/fvwm/perllib/FVWM/Module/Gtk2.pm

snip.......
Installing mplayerTV...
`mplayerTV' -> `/usr/local/bin/mplayerTV'
install: cannot stat `mplayerTV.1': No such file or directory
Installing MPlayer PERL interface...
Writing Makefile for MPlayer
Manifying blib/man3/MPlayer.3pm
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/001_load....Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8/MPlayer-0.04/blib/lib/MPlayer.pm line 26.
Use of uninitialized value in -e at /home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8/MPlayer-0.04/blib/lib/MPlayer.pm line 26.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8/MPlayer-0.04/blib/lib/MPlayer.pm line 27.
t/001_load....ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=2, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.06 cusr + 0.03 csys = 0.09 CPU)
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MPlayer.pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/MPlayer.3pm
Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/MPlayer/.packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
tv:/home/xxxx/mplayerTV-0.2.1pre8 # mplayerTV
Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/local/bin/mplayerTV line 11.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mplayerTV line 11.
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Maybe you need perl-Gtk2.

Maybe you need perl-Gtk2.
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MplayerTV has been working for a while now. Thanks for your help. I can watch TV on the desktop with the ATI graphics driver working in the background. I found the perl-Gtk2 file in a smart repository. Once installed, MplayerTV worked ok.