What TV teletext viewer to choose?

[Dmitry Butskoy]

I'm thinking about the adding of some teletext viewer for Fedora (at 
least for Gnome).

Most TV cards support teletext capturing, and this feature is demanded 
by users.

Besides some very old implementations (gnometv, alevt), which seem 
already stopped, I've found two possible variants:

- Enable "mtt" in the "xawtv" package (recently added to Fedora).
  But enabling of "mtt" will require Motif...

- Package Zapping TV viewer (http://zapping.sf.net), which has an 
advanced teletext viewer (Zapzilla).
  But Zapping should be stripped first from any mpeg-patented-etc. stuff...

Any comments?

What is better? Or maybe something else?


Regards,
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy

[Andy Shevchenko]

Hi Dmitry Butskoy!

 On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:44:53PM +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote next:

>   I'm thinking about the adding of some teletext viewer for Fedora
> (at least 
>   for Gnome).
>  
>   Most TV cards support teletext capturing, and this feature is demanded by 
>   users. 
The aletvd is still build within xawtv package.
But that solution isn't perfect.

-- 
With best regards,
Andy Shevchenko.      mailto: andy(a)smile.org.ua

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 07/31/2007 03:44 PM, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>  I'm thinking about the adding of some teletext viewer for Fedora
> (at 
>  least for Gnome).
>
>  Most TV cards support teletext capturing, and this feature is demanded 
>  by users.
>
>  Besides some very old implementations (gnometv, alevt), which seem 
>  already stopped, I've found two possible variants:
>
>  - Enable "mtt" in the "xawtv" package (recently added to Fedora).
>   But enabling of "mtt" will require Motif...
>
>  - Package Zapping TV viewer (http://zapping.sf.net), which has an 
>  advanced teletext viewer (Zapzilla).
>   But Zapping should be stripped first from any mpeg-patented-etc. 
>  stuff...
>
>  Any comments?
>
>  What is better? Or maybe something else? 
Please go with zapping if possible + and
work with "the other repo" to 
store whatever is not suited for Fedora. I have friends who claim that 
zapping is better than xawtv

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>  I'm thinking about the adding of some teletext viewer for Fedora
> (at 
>  least for Gnome).
>  
>  Most TV cards support teletext capturing, and this feature is demanded 
>  by users.
>  
>  Besides some very old implementations (gnometv, alevt), which seem 
>  already stopped, I've found two possible variants:
>  
>  - Enable "mtt" in the "xawtv" package (recently added to Fedora).
>   But enabling of "mtt" will require Motif... 
Does it work with lesstif?

Rahul

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > I'm thinking about the adding of some teletext viewer for Fedora (at 
> > least for Gnome).
> >
> > Most TV cards support teletext capturing, and this feature is 
> > demanded by users.
> >
> > Besides some very old implementations (gnometv, alevt), which seem 
> > already stopped, I've found two possible variants:
> >
> > - Enable "mtt" in the "xawtv" package (recently added to
> Fedora).
> >  But enabling of "mtt" will require Motif...
>
>  Does it work with lesstif?
>  
It should.

But now I've seen that mtt has too poor user interface.
I'm not sure whether it is even a candidate for the best choice...


~buc

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> >> I'm thinking about the adding of some teletext viewer for Fedora (at 
> >> least for Gnome).
> >>
> >> Most TV cards support teletext capturing, and this feature is 
> >> demanded by users.
> >>
> >> Besides some very old implementations (gnometv, alevt), which seem 
> >> already stopped, I've found two possible variants:
> >>
> >> - Enable "mtt" in the "xawtv" package (recently added to
> Fedora).
> >>  But enabling of "mtt" will require Motif...
> >
> > Does it work with lesstif?
> >
>  It should.
>  
>  But now I've seen that mtt has too poor user interface.
>  I'm not sure whether it is even a candidate for the best choice... 
If it works with lesstif and does offer good functionality then it might 
still be a good choice. There are a number of packages in Fedora which 
don't have good interfaces.

Rahul