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At the moment I use Me TV. Are there other good programs to watch and record TV in Ubuntu?

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VLC Install vlc

I'm using VLC. It works pretty good for what I do. Pause/resume feature works out of the box.

You will have to scan for channels first. Use w_scan (install it if necessary) and launch the following command :

w_scan -c FR -X > channels.conf

Replace FR with your country (w_scan -c ? to get the list). Now, each time you want to watch the tv, just launch this command :

vlc channels.conf

You can start recording with Shift+R, again to stop it. Pause a live program with Space.

There is a good wiki about DVB in french : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tnt (has a list of compatible hardware).

Others

Other softwares are kaffeine Install kaffeine, totem Install totem, gxine Install gxine and mplayer Install mplayer but I don't use them.

I used to use Kaffeine but dropped it for vlc because I had some issues. Just retested it and it seems to work nicely. It is a good program for recording (instant or scheduled record as you want). Maybe should I reconsider my actual choice for watching DVB...

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Maxime R.
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I've never heard of ME TV, so maybe you've already heard this, but:

If you want to record live TV, the best option you have is MythTV: http://www.mythtv.org/

If, on the other hand, you just want to have a media center that streams video from the internet and/or watches files already on disk, there is XBMC: http://xbmc.org/ boxee: http://www.boxee.tv/ hulu desktop: http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux and probably more.

If you really want to go all out and use your computer as a PVR, I would install Linux MCE, which is based off of Kubuntu: http://linuxmce.com/

Good luck.

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Leif Andersen
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Another recommendation, after testing several ones is also Kaffeine Install kaffeine

Works very smoothly in TV Mode (by far better than me-tv Install me-tv for my setup) and has lots of features. At the moment next to VLC Install vlc my favorite one.

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Definitely Kaffeine if you wanna EPG and planned recording, its also very easy to use. Only downside may be KDE libraries and paused development.

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