What TV teletext viewer to choose?

[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