Free tv software for linux

UnPlug is a its a video download tool for Firefox.

UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage.

UnPlug scans web pages and tells you where media players are getting their data from, and displays it as a simple hyperlink: in most cases, you can then follow the simple download link to save the media file.

UnPlug works for lots of sites including youtube.com, iflim.com, current.tv, myspace.com (video), revver.com, mobuzz.tv and lots more.

Unlike many other extensions, UnPlug scans the page, and if it doesnt know there the data comes from it can guess - correctly most of the time.

UnPlug your Plug-Ins and view media however you want!

tv grab dvb project decodes EPG (electronic program guide) TV listings from DVB (digital video broadcast) and outputs them in XMLTV format.

Me TV is a digital television viewer for GNOME.
The software 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. If you think that a remote is something that belongs in a museum then Me TV is probably for you.
It currently supports only DVB-T but Im willing to add support for other DVB types because it seems straight forward. It just needs to be tested.
Main features:
- 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

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)

AVI TV Episode File Resizer script is not for multiple MOVIE files (only TV) however it can do SINGLE MOVIE files quite nicely. The project was designed to help me fit (resize the file) multiple Xvid TV episodes (entire season) on a single DVD. Most of the time a TV series is almost exactly the same hours, mins, secs.

That enables this script to set the video bitrate the same for every file (episode) being processed to get the desired file size. The calculation is based on the hours, mins, seconds and the desired file size you want. If you correctly enter the time you will end up with a file size VERY close to the value you entered. The episodes will likley vary about 10 secs or so. Try to average that out when you select the episode time

The new files will have the EXACT same name as the old files so the input and output cannot be in the same DIRECTORY.

The "input files" selector can select multiple files so you can encode one or many files.

If you select an entire season (about 25 episodes) of files it could take quite a few hours to complete. The progress bar updates AFTER the completion of the first file and after every file there after. The current file being processed is displayed in the bottom status bar.

Transcode single pass is used to REencode the files.

Each file will be REencoded with MP3 audio bitrate of 96 kbps. The video is REencoded with the Xvid4 codec.

I used this script to go from 230MB to 175MB with good results. That saved me almost 1.4G for the season (25 episodes) and let me get it on a single DVD to play on my stand alone player.

You should try it with a single file first to check the quality and then do a batch job.

There are other tools to do this but this one can be setup and going in less than 1 min.

It takes almost 10 hours to do an entire season (25 episodes) at an episode time of 25 min 30 sec with a target file size of 171MB (ends up being about 174.8MB)

pythondr project is a simple python library for parsing the TV-channel info at http://dr.dk.

TV listings management program

gTVListings is a TV listings management program constructed in Mono for Gnome using XMLTV to download the listings.

Key features include Searching, Favorites, Show Category, Reminders and Now & Next.