At the moment I use Me TV. Are there other good programs to watch and record TV in Ubuntu?
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Hamster
Main app:
hamster-applet
Appindicator: hamster-indicator
I've grown fond of Hamster, and used it for tracking how long I worked on a Summer of Code project. It's added to your indicator menus (or systray). When you want to start/stop/change tasks, just hit Super+H and type what you are doing.
It makes some pretty nice statistics for you that can be exported as HTML, for sending to others. You can categorize parts of a job into groups to keep track of what exactly you're doing at the time.
Each task is labelled as [task]@[job]. For example, you could have dev@project, doc@project, etc. Hamster will do some auto-completion on these as well so most of the time you only need to type a few characters. Tags can be added to tasks as well for further categorization.
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Best Answer
VLC
I'm using VLC. It works pretty good for what I do. Pause/resume feature works out of the box.
You will have to scan for channels first. Use
w_scan(install it if necessary) and launch the following command :Replace FR with your country (
w_scan -c ?to get the list). Now, each time you want to watch the tv, just launch this command :You can start recording with Shift+R, again to stop it. Pause a live program with Space.
There is a good wiki about DVB in french : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tnt (has a list of compatible hardware).
Others
Other softwares are kaffeine
, totem 
, gxine 
and mplayer 
but I don't use them.
I used to use Kaffeine but dropped it for vlc because I had some issues. Just retested it and it seems to work nicely. It is a good program for recording (instant or scheduled record as you want). Maybe should I reconsider my actual choice for watching DVB...