Incidentally, if you have a clip playing and want to look at the Playlist tab, a thumbnail of
the video will play in the lower-left corner of the Playlist Editor, below the file manager.
Kaffeine is a typical KDE application: quite powerful, endlessly configurable, and more
than adequate for its task.
Watching TV on Your Computer
Standard video cards let you see most video resources, as you would expect. What you
may not know is that you can turn your monitor into a television screen to receive TV
signals with a TV or TV/video combo card. This section describes a sampling of Linux
software that works with these content types.
Make sure your cards are properly configured. (See Chapter 4 to configure your hardware
cards with YaST and SaX. See Chapter 6, ???Launching Your Desktop,??? for configuring X.)
TV and Video Hardware
Video support in Linux comes through the V4L (Video for Linux) API, or directly through
the X Window System. Support for TV display from video cards with a TV-out jack is poor
at this time. TV-only cards are well supported, but you must know the chipset name of
your card, not the manufacturer??™s brand name.
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