gHDTV 0.1

gHDTV is a GTK based DVB channel changer with viewer provided by MPlayer. The aim is to produce an reliable, neat DVB viewer, without the need for all the overhead of a PVR, and with more features than MPlayer or Xine alone.

http://hpc-external.jcu.edu.au/~nigel/index.php/GHDTV/HomePage

Next release will hopefully use GStreamer as the decoder, meaning we can neatly integrate the whole application. (pending http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338676)

The long journey to linux DVB

Copy your channels.conf file into ~/.xine or ~/.mplayer then start the player with gxine “dvb://TV CHANNEL” or mplayer “dvb://TV CHANNEL” This should get you going.

You could also try a far more manual approach shown here Cron is my TiVo

Freevo. When I was using Xine I kept having issues with nothing showing up or happening at all. There was two parts to this. First, the name of my channel has a space in it, so we need to put quotes around the command line in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/tv/plugins/xine.py:158 so it looks like this:
command.append(‘”dvb://’ + tuner_channel + ‘”‘)
Second, make sure the channels.conf file exists in the ~/.xine/ directory of the user running freevo. I was sudoing to run freevo, so of course I had to copy my channels.conf file to the freevo user’s directory.