5. Applications

Now that your kernel is configured, your devices have been configured, and your modules are inserted, you will also need an application to actually view or capture the images from your card. There are many available:

• bttvgrab - Provides high-quality grabbing suitable for video recording
  • http://moes.pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de/bttvgrab/
• Gnome-o-Vision - A viewer for the Gnome desktop environment (currently under development in the Gnome CVS)
  • http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnomovision/
• kwintv - Qt-based TV viewer for the KDE environment
  • http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wenk/kwintv/
• wmtune - window maker radio tuner applet for bttv based TV/radio cards
  • http://home.pages.de/~fionn/archive/wmtune-1.0_bttv.tar.bz2
• wmtv - WindowMaker TV dock.app
  • http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/~wliang/
• XawTV - a TV application and a few utilities
  • http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html
• XtTV - Simple TV/Video program for Linux/X Windows
  • http://home.pages.de/~rasca/xttv/

There is also a driver available for the FlyVideo98 Remote control card at http://wolf.ifj.edu.pl/~jochym/FlyVideo98/

Be sure to read the documentation for any applications you plan to use. Many of them require detailed configuration files to be edited before the application will work properly! Due to the many different types of cards out there, you must take the time to read the documentation on most of these, as the application defaults will most likely not work for your card.