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GTK See is a simple image viewer based on GTK+ 1.2.x and running on X Window System. The appearance and interface are similar to popular image viewer ACDSee, that is where the name "GTK See" come from.
Its confirmed by users that GTK See work fine in these platforms:
- Slackware (intel) 3.4, 3.5, 4.0, 8.x, 9.x, 10
- RedHat (intel) 5.1, 5.2, 9.0
- ASP Linux (athlon k7) 9.2
- Solaris (sparc) 2.6, 9
- Debian (intel) 2.0
- Digital Unix V4.0(alpha)
- FreeBSD (intel) 2.2.1, 2.2.7, 3.0
- HP-UX
- TurboLinux 3.0.2c
GTK See is distributed under the GNU Public License.

OnTV project is a GNOME Applet that can monitor current and upcoming TV programs.
OnTV is a GNOME Applet written in Python using PyGTK, it uses XMLTV files to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.
Main features:
- Program descriptions as tooltips.
- Remaining time of/until current/upcoming programs.
- Preferences dialog for selecting what channels to monitor and more.

AmarokScreenSaver is an Amarok script which displays information about the currently playing song as a screensaver.

I often use my computer to play music when I am having visitors or when I am just not in front of the monitor. I wanted some way to still be able to see what song was playing. As my TV is connected to the computer I decided to make a screensaver that would do just this. (you dont need to even own a TV to use this script, but my TV is in my living room and my computer is not...)

This script creates an image based on the currently playing song in Amarok, then changes your screensaver to KSlideshow and tells it to display this particular image. It restores your original screensaver settings when you stop the script or exit Amarok.

The script has some basic settings configurable via a dialog:

Party / safe - mode:

The script can be configured to lock the screensaver, you will need your password to return to the desktop. This is great if you are having a party and dont want everybody to use the computer for surfing or changing track every other minute.

DPMS:

I use display power management to turn off my monitor after a given period of time. This did not work well with my idea. Therefore I created an option to turn off DPMS, and turning it back on when the script is exited or Amarok is shut down.

Rotate image placement:

To prevent damage to the screen more than one image (three) can be created and the screensaver will randomly display these images.

GShow TV is a TV program schedule viewer and a Personal Video Recorder GUI. The basic purpose of GShow TV is to provide a nice GUI for viewing tv program schedule information and for recording the programs.

GShow TV doesnt itself do the recording of the selected programs, rather it uses any PVR solution that exists. GShow TV is globally usable as it uses XMLTV to access the program schedules, and xmltv has support for multitude of countries. (mid 2004 support for Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, France, Norway, Portugal and Romania)

The interface between the recording software and the GUI is two trivial shell scripts, which are of course modifiable by the user as they see fit. The reason why this separation is simple: On linux almost everybody who has a TV card on their computer uses a different recording solution.

The multitude of home made recording systems is countless. However, most home made systems dont include a nice GUI and hence GShow TV. GShow TV uses XMLTV for its tv listing. GShow TV can be used as a TV Guide without its recording functionality.

The Xbox Linux Project aims to privide a version of GNU/Linux for the Xbox, so that it can be used as an ordinary computer.
Linux should make use of all Xbox hardware and allow to install and run software from standard i386 Linux distributions.
An Xbox with Linux can be a full desktop computer with mouse and keyboard, a web/email box connected to TV, a server or router or a node in a cluster.
You can either dual-boot or use Linux only; in the latter case, you can replace both IDE devices. And yes, you can connect the Xbox to a VGA monitor.
Main features:
- You can run Linux on your Xbox!
- You can do it without a modchip!
- You can do it without opening your Xbox!

Maxemum TV-Guide is a KDE TV-guide. Maxemum TV-Guide is developed in C++, based on QT/KDE and uses XMLTV as its back end to grab listings.
At present there are backends grabbing TV listings for Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, France, Norway and Romania.
Main features:
- easy-to-use user interface
- quick channel(s)-only selection
- descriptions
- hidden in tray while not used
- favourite show highlighting
- realtime updates with colour encoded time
- automatic grabbing of TV-listings
- a popup window alerting the user when favourite show starts
- execution of an external command upon user alerts
- favourite overview with quick removal
- realtime progress
- and more..
Enhancements:
- new translation: Slovak, by Jozef Riha
- new translation: Italian, by Matteo Azzali
- norwegian translation has been improved, by Leif Mathis Gaup
- french translation has been improved, by Starcrasher
- german translation has been improved, by Philipp Matthias Hahn
- episode Title-patch by nhjm449 applied
- bug-fix in parser (MTVG crashed if an icon-tag was located in a programme-tag)

Zapping is a TV viewer for the Gnome desktop. Zapping program runs on Linux Icon Linux, FreeBSD Icon FreeBSD and Solaris.

With Zapping and a TV card you can watch TV, take screenshots, and record video and audio. Zapping has a deinterlacer and a Teletext viewer built in and supports Closed Caption and Teletext subtitles. Got a remote control? Zapping supports LIRC too.

This driver gives you the capability to work with the MediaFocus Satellite TV card under Linux. This driver contains modules for Zorans multimedia controller ZR36120/ZR36125, Micronas Intermetall Video Pixel Decoder VPX32XX series, Digital Radio Processor DRP3510 (astra digital radio decoder), Multistandard Sound Processor MSP3400 C, SGS Thompson Satellite Sound and Video Processor STV0030 and Mitels 2.6 GHz Synthesiser SP5055 (satellite tuner).

A satellite frequency table for xawtv is also included. In this table the 18/14V and 22kHz settings are placed within the frequency values. In order to avoid this dirty implementation two possible future ioctls for the v4l-API are proposed here.

The above mentioned driver was written for the ZR36120/ZR36125-based MediaFocus Sat-PC card. Nowadays TechniSat is selling a new MediaFocus card, which is based on the Philips SAA 7146 multimedia-chip. A driver for this card can be found on the official TechniSat MediafocusII website.