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From: nunojsilva@×××××××.pt
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:56:41
Message-Id: 878v5de149.fsf@ist.utl.pt
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 2013-03-24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > On 23/03/13 01:15, Markos Chandras wrote:
4 >>
5 >> # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> (22 Mar 2013)
6 >> # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289)
7 >> # Problems with the alsa patches (#403389)
8 >> # Herd has not interest in it and needs a maintainer
9 >> # Removal in a month unless a new maintainer steps up
10 >> # and fix all the bugs
11 >> # Alternatives: media-tv/me-tv, media-tv/mythtv
12 >> media-tv/tvtime
13 >
14 > These aren't alternatives (they're only dealing with digital TV, not
15 > analog.) AFAIK, tvtime has no alternatives at all. If it goes,
16 > analog TV users can't watch TV anymore :-/
17
18 mplayer *can* play it, but tuning is a different story. I suppose you
19 can always craft a playlist with "URIs" that have the channel frequency
20 and use that.
21
22 But in terms of interface, tvtime is a bit better, IMHO. Sadly, I don't
23 really have any analog broadcasts around to try it with.
24
25 --
26 Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
27 http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>