VLC can display video from your TV tuner card.

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Chuck Cole wrote:
> He may be looking for that, but his question was about VLC performence in Linux.
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> Do you know how channels and frequencies are relevant within VLC ?
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> Chuck
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
>> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Matt Hallacy
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>> You're looking for this:
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>> http://www.jneuhaus.com/fccindex/cablech.html
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>> Cable uses slightly different frequencies than VHF/UHF, and depending on
>> if it's a Standard, IRC, or HRC system they differ on the cable system.
>>
>> Unless you've moved out of BFE Minnesota, you'll probably have to try
>> all three cable standards and hope for the best. It's most definitely
>> NOT actually VHF broadcast frequencies though.
>>
>> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 18:56 -0500, Raymond Norton wrote:
>>> I did say I was capturing from a TV tuner. Glad I explained it well
>>> enough that you knew what I meant
>>>
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>>> Chuck Cole wrote:
>>>> Linux and TV tuners are very different things.  Linux doesn't include the physical capacity to process (receive and
>> demodulate) TV
>>>> channels, some hardware must do that.  Your language isn't describing the right physical things and their interfaces.
>>  A typical VHS
>>>> tape player has a receiver for TV and delivers base video extracted (demodulated) from the  TV carrier signals but
>> does not have a
>>>> direct interface a PC can use, and this has nothing yet compatible with VLC or Linux.  Eventually, an
>> analog-to-digital conversion
>>>> must be done, and then a digital encoding that may be part of VLC may occur.  You may be clear on what you seek, but
>> your language
>>>> isn't stating that.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck
>>>>
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>>
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