23 May
2024
23 May
'24
5:25 p.m.
On Thursday 23 May 2024 02:18:53 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2024-05-22 23:44:56 dep via tde-users wrote:
I believe that VLC would be your best shot for streaming live TV via a dongle.
I don't do it myself, but I have heard from others over the past few years.
For video players, once I found smplayer, I never used anything else. And
then, for unknown reasons, my sound stopped working with smplayer. I have
wasted hours and hours trying to get the sound to work again, dug out old
configuration files and previous installations from backups of old systems,
etc. ... but nothing works.
So I returned to VLC, which is reliable, though more difficult to use. Also,
the sound in VLC is tinny and shrill, and I cannot seem to make it better,
whereas in smplayer it was just right. I have custom EQ settings saved from
years past, but these don't seem to help.
In any case, it doesn't bother me too much any more. It would be nice to get
the sound working right on both VLC and smplayer, because I sometimes might
feel like watching, but I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to
get it to work.
Sound is fine with all my audio players.
Bill
It seems as if Kaffeine is abandonware, and there
is little online about
it, so I am on my own unless someone here knows the application, or
another app that can stream live local TV via a tuner dongle.
Does anyone?
dep
Kaffeine worked well for me since KDE3 days until sometime around the
release of Trinity R14, when various parts became broken. Now it crashes
immediately when I try to play anything with either the gstreamer or xine
engines. I'm not sure which of the multimedia players are actually
supported in Trinity; there are nine others besides Kaffeine in the menu:
Amarok
Codeine
Kaboodle
KMPlayer
KPlayer
Noatune
VLC
TDEMid
JuK
I was very well used to Kaffein's controls; I find that VLC is more
difficult to operate. I have not tried many of the others, but I suppose I
will have to explore them.
Leslie