I'm using SUSE 9.2 as my primary OS lately. It came bundled with KDETV which would lock up. After some tinkering in Plugger and trying a load of different TV tuner software, I am now able to watch TV but with issues.
1) Sound
I have a Sound Blaster Live value edition. It doesn't always appear to initialize properly when SUSE starts. I have to go into suseplugger and go into volume control. As soon as i do that sound works. Unfortunately whenever I load a TV tuner like KDETV(newer version) or TVTime the sound will work, but when I exit the program the sound never stops until I reboot.
2) Closed captioning
A couple of the tuner software claim to have closed captioning support, but they don't work for me. The readme doesn't give much clues.
3) Recording & screenshots
XawTV supposedly has recording, but doesn't seem to work. I think it must need some manual configuration.
Basically I'm asking if anyone has already done some legwork in this area? I've spent some time surfing various Linux forums and reading up what i can find on searches, but it's hard to find specific info. I'm suspecting the Sound Blaster is the cause of the sound issues. Would I be better of getting a different card, if so which one? What is the best TV tuner software out there? I want closed captioning support, recording support and snapshots would be nice. I'd like to use a single tuner software, and will read up on how to configure it manually if need be, as long as there are reasonable docs.
Suggestions?
