Introduction
Me TV is a digital television (DVB) viewer for GNOME.
Me TV was developed for the modern digital lounge room with a PC for a media centre that is capable of normal PC tasks (web surfing, word processing and watching TV). It is not designed to be a full-blown media centre, such as MythTV, but will integrate well with the existing GNOME desktop.
Features currently include:
* Completely mouse driven
* Current and future program information
* Instant Record
* Double-click fullscreen
* DVB-T and DVB-C support
* Very simple installation and set up
Setup
First off you need to download and install Me TV 0.4.0 for Ubuntu 7.10:
wget https://launchpad.net/me-tv/stable/0.4/+download/me-tv_0.4.0_i386.deb
then cd to the directory were you saved the deb and type:
sudo dpkg -i me-tv_0.4.0_i386.deb
Now create ~/.me-tv/ if it does not already exist:
mkdir ~/.me-tv/
Now to install dvd-utils to get the TV channels:
sudo apt-get install dvb-utils
Once dvb utils is installed we need to scan for TV channels and this is how we do that:
scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-Adelaide > ~/.me-tv/channels.conf
Note: You will have to ls the /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/ directory for your location an substitute au-Adelaide for your location.
Final step now is to launch Me TV:
Applications –> Sound and Video –> Me TV
Screenshots of version 0.4.0
References
Official Me TV Home Page
Me TV Project Website
Linux TV Wiki
UHF Log-Periodic Array
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14:22, Sunday, October 28, 2007Michael Lamothe /
This is very cool Can you please add http://me-tv.sf.net to the references?
Keep up the great work.
17:39, Tuesday, November 27, 2007stanna /
straight off the bat. i love your efforts, im an aussie and have a winfast DTV200 H or something, i forget, cant be bothered looking for the box lol. but i have to say im very impressed. also you seem to have 4 or 5 seperate sites or locations with different informations. im hoping you can consolidate everything into a single site explaining everything..
other than that. great work mate. im running gutsy with said tv card.. and a 22″ lcd. its fantastic. havnt tried the remote yet, but thats not the most important thing.. again cheers!
22:55, Tuesday, December 18, 2007Matthew Vermeulen /
I’ve found that to get all channels in regional WA (Albany for me) you’ll need to scan the au-Perth file.
Thanks for the great work and post quail, and thanks to Michael too 🙂
Cheers,
Matt
13:40, Tuesday, February 17, 2009Carly Michael /
I also recently just got cable & satellite tv on my pc and set it up with RT cable from Radio Shack for $20. Pretty amazing and now I dont need Comcast anymore. Just thought it would also be a good share.
7:53, Wednesday, April 29, 2009Samsung LN52A650 Portal /
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.
0:03, Monday, June 15, 2009TV Dust Covers /
Just wanted to say thanks for the great post ! Found your blog on Google and I’m happy I did. I’ll be reading you on a regular basis ! Thanks again 🙂
Thanks,
Donna