Ubuntu and TV Tuners

I have a Philips Semiconductors PCI TV Tuner card that I use to watch TV on the computer. Using this card in Ubuntu is a breeze.

lspci reports the following card:

00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decaoder (rev d0)

To use this card, all that is required is to load the drivers:

rmmod saa7134_alsa
rmmod saa7134
modprobe saa3134 card=81

Now load a TV Tuner program, such as "tvtime."