The me-tv package is not working properly in Debian Squeeze. It loads up but the window will not respond to input, therefore you can not control the application to change channels or the volume. So I am using my digital set-top box connected to the tv card input instead. Below is the command that I use to view television with mplayer. At least this works very well. Me-tv uses the xine backend, so maybe the problem is there, or a Gstreamer update. I hope this is fixed soon though. Compiling the latest version from source will not be easy. I tried the gnome-dvb tools, but they will not detect any channels. I really need to buy a DVB card for Linux that is properly supported by my Linux distribution. My DVB card will not work properly with kaffeine either, so only me-tv will actually tune some channels and allow me to watch any television.
mplayer -tv input=1 tv://
I tried to use the vlc package, but it will not allow me to select the video input to watch the input from my set-top box. That is strange, The Ubuntu and Mint packages allow you to select from the various inputs that your capture card offers, but the Debian Squeeze package does not allow this. That leaves only the mplayer package to watch a video input. There is a bug report about this here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=91410 I am sure this will also be fixed. Here is to hoping. There are some tips here on using vlc for v4l inputs.
I am a computer enthusiast that has always been interested in maintaining and upgrading computer hardware. I was born on a farm and lived there for 13 years before moving into town. I was always interested in technology and my father always gave me good encouragement for developing my knowledge and interest in tinkering with computers. He was using a computer on the farm but that was in the very late 80`s and late 90`s. Seeing what a computer could do always fascinated me and then I knew that is what I wanted to do. The first time I used Linux was Red Hat 6.2 installed off a single CDROM and I was amazed that you did not need to install any more drivers on my old Intel Celeron machine to be able to enjoy a nice 24BPP desktop and use the GIMP to edit photos and enjoy playing the old Linux games like Xbill. Then a while later I tried Mandrake Linux 9.2 and I was hooked. It came with so much software and was very easy to use as well. Then Mandrake Linux 10 and on through FreeBSD, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1 Suse Linux 9.2, Suse 10 and onto the Ubuntu distributions although I am using Fedora Core 15 and the Gnome 3 desktop at the moment.