300 CHAPTER 19 MOVIES AND MULTIMEDIA Installing (Bulletproof web design)
300 CHAPTER 19 MOVIES AND MULTIMEDIA Installing Tvtime To download and install tvtime, open Synaptic Package Manager (System . Administration), click the Search button, and enter tvtime as a search term. In the list of results, click the entry for tvtime and mark it for installation. Then click Apply. When the download has completed, you ll be asked a number of questions during the configuration process. First, you need to choose your TV picture format. Users in the United States should choose NTSC. Users in the United Kingdom, Australia, and certain parts of Europe should choose PAL. To find out which TV system your country uses, look up your country at www.videouniversity.com/standard.htm. You also need to choose your geographical area from the list so that tvtime can set the correct radio frequency range for your TV card. Once the program is installed, you ll find it on the Applications . Sound & Video menu. Figure 19-5 shows an example of tvtime in action. Using the program is straightforward, but if you need guidance, visit the program s web site at http://tvtime.sourceforge.net. Figure 19-5. If you have a TV tuner card, tvtime lets you watch TV on your PC! Summary In this chapter, we looked how you can watch movies on your PC. You ve seen how you can update Ubuntu to work with the most popular digital video technologies, such as Windows Media Player and QuickTime. In addition, we looked at how you can view online multimedia such as Flash animations on your computer, and discussed how you can watch TV on your PC. In the next chapter, we take a look at image editing under Ubuntu. You ll learn about one of the crown jewels of the Linux software scene: The GIMP.