In ‘Settings’+‘Input’, select the video source. If you select ‘Television’ here, set up the broadcasting network before starting the application. This automatically takes place with the network search, also found under the ‘Settings’ menu. If you click ‘Save settings’, the network found is entered into the .xawtv file in your home directory and will be available the next time you start the application.

	Selecting Channels
If you do not want to browse for all available channels, find the next channel with Ctrl-↑. If needed, subsequently adjust the broadcast frequency with ← or →.

The audio output of the TV card is connected to the line input of your sound card, to the speakers, or to an amplifier. Some TV cards can change the volume of the audio output. The volume can then be set with the sliders that appear after selecting ‘Settings’+‘Slider’. This window also provides the sliders for brightness, contrast, and color.

To use your sound card for audio playback, check the mixer settings using gamix, described in Section 13.1, “Mixers”. For sound cards meeting the AC97 specifications, set ‘Input-MUX’ to ‘Line’. The volume can then be adjusted with the ‘Master’ and ‘Line’ sliders.

Most television images have a height and width ratio of 4:3. These proportions can be set with ‘Tools’+‘Screen Dimensions’. If ‘4:3’ is selected here (this is the default setting), the screen dimensions are retained automatically, even when the display size is changed.

With F or ‘Tools’+‘Fullscreen’, switch to full-screen mode. If the TV image in full-screen mode is not scaled to the full monitor size, some fine-tuning is required. Many graphics cards can scale the full-screen mode television image to the full monitor size without changing the graphical mode. If your card does not support this function, the graphics mode must be switched to 640x480 for the full-screen mode. Create the related configuration in ‘Settings’+‘Configuration’. After restarting motv, the monitor mode is also changed if you have switched to full-screen mode.

	Storing the Configuration in .xawtv
The .xawtv file is created automatically and updated by clicking ‘Settings’+‘Save settings’. Here, the broadcasters are saved along with the configuration. More information about the configuration file can be found in the man page for xawtvrc.

Use the launcher menu to start other applications to use with motv. Start the audio mixer gamix and the video text application alevt, for example, using a keyboard shortcut. Applications to launch from motv must be entered in the .xawtv file. The entries should look like this:

[launch] Gamix = Ctrl+G, gamix AleVT = Ctrl+A, alevt

The shortcut then the command used to start the application should follow the application name itself. Start the applications entered under [launch] via the ‘Tool’ menu.