• Channel Scan for fresh installs of Me TV
• EPG Colours currently viewed event
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• EPG Search
• Schedule Recordings

Couple things have changed
1) The Official web site for Me TV is now:
http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/
The old url still works but that redirects to the new one above.

2) We have also setup a repository for Me TV:
The Ubuntu Gutsy Me TV repo is online, you can get it from here:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu gutsy main

or here:

deb http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ gutsy main
deb-src http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ gutsy main

or you can find the Ubuntu hardy Me TV repo here:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-lamothe/ubuntu hardy main

or here:

deb http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ hardy main
deb-src http://me-tv.southernvaleslug.org/pub/ubuntu/ hardy main

* I accidentally left the auto-scan feature enabled in 0.4.3. It doesn’t work so I’ve removed it in 0.4.4.

* The EPG thread will now clear out events from the epg.xml that don’t have a channel. This was a real issue for those that have decided to remove a channel in the past. The UI use to throw error messages at you, now it just deletes offending events in the epg.xml.

* We’ve added a few more values to the channels.conf parser which are valid values for channels.conf. w_scan was outputting values that we didn’t recognize. That problem should be fixed now.

* There have also been a lot of updates to the packaging of the application in response to REVU.

sudo apt-get install build-essential autotools-dev automake libxml-parser-perl pkg-config libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libxtst-dev libxine-dev libxml2-dev libglade2-dev cdbs libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtkhtml3.8-dev debhelper fakeroot intltool libtool

Next, you’ll want to get the latest version of the source from the Launchpad download page. Extract the source,

tar zxvf me-tv*.tar.gz

Now, compile Me TV,

cd me-tv-*
./autogen.sh
make

The binary should be created at src/me-tv. This binary alone isn’t much use without an existing installation of Me TV because it requires some files to be installed on the system.

Building a deb package
If compiling works then you should be able to build the deb package,

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

This will have created the deb package for under the me-tv-* directory

Installing the deb package
To install the deb package you created

sudo dpkg -i me-tv_*.deb

References
Official Me TV Home Page
Me TV 0.4.0 and Ubuntu 7.10

Me TV was developed for the modern digital lounge room with a PC for a media centre that is capable of normal PC tasks (web surfing, word processing and watching TV). It is not designed to be a full-blown media centre, such as MythTV, but will integrate well with the existing GNOME desktop.

Features currently include:

* Completely mouse driven
* Current and future program information
* Instant Record
* Double-click fullscreen
* DVB-T and DVB-C support
* Very simple installation and set up

Setup
First off you need to download and install Me TV 0.4.0 for Ubuntu 7.10:

wget https://launchpad.net/me-tv/stable/0.4/+download/me-tv_0.4.0_i386.deb

then cd to the directory were you saved the deb and type:

sudo dpkg -i me-tv_0.4.0_i386.deb

Now create ~/.me-tv/ if it does not already exist:

mkdir ~/.me-tv/

Now to install dvd-utils to get the TV channels:

sudo apt-get install dvb-utils

Once dvb utils is installed we need to scan for TV channels and this is how we do that:

scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-Adelaide > ~/.me-tv/channels.conf

Note: You will have to ls the /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/ directory for your location an substitute au-Adelaide for your location.

Final step now is to launch Me TV:

Applications –> Sound and Video –> Me TV

Screenshots of version 0.4.0

References
Official Me TV Home Page
Me TV Project Website
Linux TV Wiki
UHF Log-Periodic Array