Using the menu

I changed from Windowmaker to XFCE for various reasons and adding a different menu was very easy. I decided to do that, because most of the time I would not have the TV changer on my screen.

To do this, I just used the standard launcher from XFCE. Clicked right and added the launcher. Then I changed the properties and added different programs. As I already had the images, I could just add the images.

As the command I would use the following settings for e.g. BBC2

Name : BBC2
Description : BBC Two
Icon : The BB2 icon
Command : ivtv-tune --device=/dev/video0 -teurope-west -f 711.25
Working directory : defauly
Run in Terminal	: blank
Use startup notification : Blank

On the left is the taskbar. By clicking on the arrow pointing to the right, you see the idems in the middle. By clicking right on the arrow and selecting options, you see the different things in the launcher and details on one of them. It should not be to hard to realize that the comand can be anything you want.

So now I have the changing of channels at my disposal all the time. I also added a small script that lauched MPlayer.

#!/bin/bash
#mplayer tv starter
#set -x
START ()
{
	ivtv-tune --device=/dev/video0 -teurope-west -f 245.25
	CHAN="Vijf TV"
}
FREQ=`/usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -F|awk -F\( '{print \$NF}'|awk -F. '{print \$1}'`
case "$FREQ" in
	495) CHAN="VRT Een";;
	615) CHAN="Canvas/Ketnet";;
	479) CHAN="VTM";;
	487) CHAN="2 be";;
	245) CHAN="VT4";;
	182) CHAN="Vijf TV";; #Not on tvgids.nl
	259) CHAN="BBC One";;
	711) CHAN="BBC Two";;
	463) CHAN="Discovery Channel";;
	189) CHAN="National Geographic";;
	719) CHAN="Vitaya";;
	*)   START;;
esac
kdialog --title="Starting TV" --passivepopup "Going to watch $CHAN" 10 &
DISPLAY=:0.2 gmplayer -fs -vf crop=700:420  /dev/video0