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. > > Do you know how channels and frequencies are relevant within VLC ? > > Chuck > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Matt Hallacy >> >> You're looking for this: >> >> http://www.jneuhaus.com/fccindex/cablech.html >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >