What TV teletext viewer to choose?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 1 16:06:19 UTC 2007


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




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