How to get my tv card working

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Hi! Ive just bought an Ausus p7131 tv card. How to get it working in Suse?

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Just check if the driver is loaded or not. I think it uses the saa7134 driver.

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Alright, so first I ran TVcard settings in Yast control panel and it look like this:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/742/tvcards.th.png](http://img6.imageshack.us/i/tvcards.png/)
so I guess, that means, that the driver is loaded.
Then I press the “Edit” button, then TV channels and then scanned for channels and the result was this:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9890/scanforchannels.th.png](http://img138.imageshack.us/i/scanforchannels.png/)
Then I installed mythtv from this tutorial: Opensuse 10.3 - MythTV then scanned for channels in mythtv. It founded something, I’m not sure what, but when I tried to watch TV in Mythtv, the result was this: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7806/mythtv.th.png](http://img22.imageshack.us/i/mythtv.png/)
Then I installed Xawtv and TVtime, but I’m not able to run both of these apps, it appears black window and it immediately disappears.

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Try Kaffeine. I find that works “out of the box”. It only works with digital TV though.

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i have only analog tv, so Kaffeine did not work.

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wow now I know why I am not getting anything from Kaffeine,

What is a good alternative for watching analog cable ATSC??
something slick and easy to config would be great!!

my card has never worked in linux until today, getting close.

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Hi
Install the dvb tools and mplayer (kmplayer?), run a scan for
example via;


scan /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB -o zap | tee ~/channels.conf

You need to look in the /usr/share/dvb/atsc/ to change for your area.
Then if you copy the channels.conf into the ~/.mplayer directory it
will be recognized.

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Thanks but I am a little confused,

the scan resulted in 1 item found, but the confusion is …
“in the /usr/share/dvb/atsc/ to change for your area.” i could only find us-ATSC-center- freq…but it is a text file not a “channels.conf” file,

there is a file named config in the .mplayer folder but it is empty.

can you be more specific for a noobie