I solved my problem and wanted to get back with the solution. My particular thanks to Dirk Ziegelmeter for some really detailed help on my problem -- stated in the Forward below. The answer was the on board video of my new Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M motherboard. It laked some specific features used by kdetv and tvtime both. I purchased an e-GeForce FX 5200 with Nvidia chip set and all is well. SuSE made getting the driver from the vendor so easy I had to check to see if was actually started. The TV image is stunningly better than with my last PC which had a compatible on board video chip set.
<br><br>Have a great day -- George<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">George Fragos</b> <<a href="mailto:fragos@gmail.com">fragos@gmail.com</a>
><br>Date: Feb 6, 2006 9:27 PM<br>Subject: Sound without picture<br>To: KWinTV List <<a href="mailto:kwintv@kde.org">kwintv@kde.org</a>><br><br></span>I'd been happily running my WinTV card in a 32 bit Athalon XP with
<br>SuSE 10.0. I purchased a Sempron 64 system and moved my WinTV to it.<br>I installed SuSE 10.0, 64 bit this time. I configured the TV card in<br>YaST just like before. I can scan for channels and find all I did<br>before but they are sound only -- black screen. Suggestions please.
<br><br>Starting KDETV 0.8.7 from the console I get the following GUI pop up:<br>KDETV -- Video Plugin Error<br>Unable to grab video.<br>Video display is not possible with the current plug in configuration.<br>Try playing with the configurations options of the V4L2 plug in.
<br><br>-- <br>____________<br>George Fragos<br><a href="mailto:fragos@gmail.com">fragos@gmail.com</a><br>73 East Swift Ave.<br>Fresno CA 93704