Free tv software for linux

Tvheadend 2.4 brings users the convenience of a streaming server/relay which supports a variety of sources and multiple output formats.
Tvheadend is initially intended to be used for receiving TV (DVB, Analog, IPTV) and to transmit it using a number of different output formats to subscribers. Together with powerful DVR (Digital Video Recorder) features, an advanced EPG and a web-interface it can be used as a TV distribution hub in your home.

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

Freevo project is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set-top box.
It uses MPlayer and other apps to play and record audio and video. It is optimized for use with a TV and remote, but can be used with a monitor and keyboard. It is very easy to install since the binary release package has no external dependencies.
Main features:
- SDL
- Pygame
- Python Imaging Library
- Mplayer
- Python
- Python Twisted
- Xine
Enhancements:
- New audio scrobbler plug-in
- New Chinese translation
- New Greek translation
- Updates the Apple trailers plug-in
- Updates to recordings manager
- Updates to button bar plug-ins
- Updated French translation
- Updated Spanish translation
- Changes to MPlayer field dominance and interlacing
- Many bug fixes

Muxi is a tv application and personal video recorder for DVB-T. The project includes an electronic programme guide, live stream recording and time shifting.

MeDs Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. MeDs Movie Manager project gets the movies info from IMDb, and episode info from tv.com.
Main features:
- Unlimited size movie list
- Add, Edit, Delete database functions
- Episode functionality for series
- Quick movie filter
- Advanced search options
- List functionality
- Multi-add function (Search directories for files)
- Obtain AVI / OGM / MPEG and DVD (ifo) file info
- Automatic download of movie info from IMDb (Proxy support)
- Automatic download of episode info from tv.com (Proxy support)
- Import function (3 modes - Simple text, excel and extreme movie manager database (Tested with v4.5)
- Export to HTML (2 modes - full and simple)
- Customizable movie additional info
- Customizable database queries for statistics
- GIF, PNG and JPG cover support
- Changeable layout (Look And Feels)

homeTVstream is a collection of shell scripts and a PHP-based webpage for watching TV on your LAN computers.

This project is based on VLC, it encodes and streams video using port 8080 in an MMS stream, so you can watch it with VLC, using URL mmsh://yourserverip:8080/, or any other MMS-capable player, using URL mms://yourserverip:8080/, or just by opening the TV page in your web browser.

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.

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