gatitv -- a GNOME based TV tuner for ATI video cards

Warning

I'm afraid I am not maintaining this project anymore, since I no longer own an ATI TV tuner card. Moreover, the GATOS driver has evolved to a different architecture that doesn't work with this application anymore.

However, I'll be happy to give maintainership of this project to anyone interested.

Overview

gatitv is a TV tuner program for ATI video cards equipped with an ATI TV tuner. It is actually just a different frontend to GATOS.

The main reason for existing this program, given that there is already xatitv from the GATOS package, is that xatitv uses a custom toolkit -- ibtk -- which is rather ugly (of course that's a matter of taste, I guess).

gatitv is based on GTK+ and GNOME, which gives it a much better look. Other features include decorations (themes) and the very useful ability to reorder channels. Unfortunately, some features from xatitv are missing, like snapshots, closed-captioning, etc., so keep it around.

Installing

gatitv reuses all low-level code from GATOS, so install it first. gatitv has been developed with GATOS 0.0.5.

Also, install the following libraries:

Get these at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME.

Get gatitv from http://download.sourceforge.net/gatitv/

Then, to install gatitv follow the usual ./configure && make && make install routine.

Good luck!

Helping

If you want to help, give suggestions or report bugs, or themes, you can send me an email (see address below).

Gustavo J.A.M. Carneiro

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