Me TV 0.5.0 looks to be a good release when it is released with some new features added to it. Here is some of what to expect in in the 0.5.0 release.
Me TV on the 25 December has been made available in the Debian sid repository, and a sync request has been put in for Ubuntu. Hopefully, if this is acted upon you’ll see Me TV in the Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) repository soon.
We have been working hard on Me TV 🙂
Couple things have changed
1) The Official web site for Me TV is now:
http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/
The old url still works but that redirects to the new one above.
2) We have also setup a repository for Me TV:
The Ubuntu Gutsy Me TV repo is online, you can get it from here:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu gutsy main
or here:
deb http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ gutsy main
deb-src http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ gutsy main
or you can find the Ubuntu hardy Me TV repo here:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu hardy main
or here:
deb http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ hardy main
deb-src http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ hardy main
We’ve uploaded a new version, Me TV 0.4.4 to (https://launchpad.net/me-tv/+download). This should fix the “umlaut” issue however I’m not certain that it wasn’t caused by GtkHTML > 3.8. The following is a just a quick scrawling describing the changes.
* I accidentally left the auto-scan feature enabled in 0.4.3. It doesn’t work so I’ve removed it in 0.4.4.
* The EPG thread will now clear out events from the epg.xml that don’t have a channel. This was a real issue for those that have decided to remove a channel in the past. The UI use to throw error messages at you, now it just deletes offending events in the epg.xml.
* We’ve added a few more values to the channels.conf parser which are valid values for channels.conf. w_scan was outputting values that we didn’t recognize. That problem should be fixed now.
* There have also been a lot of updates to the packaging of the application in response to REVU.
Compiling
Firstly, there’s a bunch of development libraries and tools that need to be installed,
sudo apt-get install build-essential autotools-dev automake libxml-parser-perl pkg-config libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libxtst-dev libxine-dev libxml2-dev libglade2-dev cdbs libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtkhtml3.8-dev debhelper fakeroot intltool libtool
Next, you’ll want to get the latest version of the source from the Launchpad download page. Extract the source,
tar zxvf me-tv*.tar.gz
Now, compile Me TV,
cd me-tv-*
./autogen.sh
make
The binary should be created at src/me-tv. This binary alone isn’t much use without an existing installation of Me TV because it requires some files to be installed on the system.
Building a deb package
If compiling works then you should be able to build the deb package,
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
This will have created the deb package for under the me-tv-* directory
Installing the deb package
To install the deb package you created
sudo dpkg -i me-tv_*.deb
References
Official Me TV Home Page
Me TV 0.4.0 and Ubuntu 7.10
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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