As your hardware has been properly configured with YaST, start xawtv4 from the main menu (‘Multimedia’+‘Video’+‘xawtv4’ ). Before you can actually start watching your favorite broadcasts, build a database of DVB stations.

Figure 14.3. Running xawtv4

Right-click the start window to open the control window (see Figure 14.3, “Running xawtv4”). Start a scan for available DVB stations with ‘Edit’+‘Scan DVB’. A channel scanner and browser window open. Select a bouquet to prepare the scan. This can be done manually with ‘Commands’+‘Tune manually’ if you already know the tuning parameters of the bouquet or by requesting them from a built-in database of xawtv4 via ‘Database’+‘_country_’+‘_channel number_’ (replace _country_ and _channel_number_) by the actual values for your location.

As soon as the scanner is tuned-in, the first data is displayed in the browser window. Launch a full scan of all available stations with ‘Command’+‘Full Scan’. While the scanner is running, you can select your favorite stations and add them to the station list by simply dragging them into the control window. Leave the channel scanner and select one of the channels to start watching the broadcast.

	Editing the Station List
Using keyboard shortcuts, control the channel selection using your keyboard. To set a shortcut for any station contained in your station list, select the station, click ‘Edit’+‘Edit Station’. A dialog called ‘TV Station Properties’ opens. Enter the shortcut and leave the dialog with ‘OK’. This dialog also allows you to define submenus holding groups of stations (such as “news” or “private”).

The xawtv4 software package contains several more useful stand-alone multimedia applications: