Free overture episode software for linux

KoverArtist is a program for the fast creation of covers for cd/dvd cases and boxes. KoverArtists main idea is to be able to create decent looking covers with some mouseclicks.
The project started from my need for some decent covers for the films I record from television and then often burn on dvd for archiving.
With series I usually start with one or two dvds, and add more as more episodes are available. So the program - KoverArtist - had to be flexible enough to handle that. This also requires changing covers on the fly to use cases that can house more discs.
Enhancements:
- Some layout tweaking to make the main window fit better on a 1024x768 screen (thanks to Agnese Bonetti for reporting).
- Bugfix: Disc #1 tab was not shown on startup when no project was opened.
- Bugfix: koverartist crashed when ~/.cddb did not exist upon audio-cd import (thanks to Audidriver for reporting).
- Corrections in German translation.
- Added support for KinoArtist projects (KinoArtist is not released yet).
- When importing a disc and the project title or snapshots are not set, the disc settings are then used (like when opening a KMediaFactory project as a project).
- Added support for automake 2.6.x

fortune-xfiles project consists of various quotes from the X-Files TV episodes for the fortune program.

To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes).

To use it, simply type:

# fortune xfiles

Example:

Mulder: You know, I always wanted a peg-leg. It was a boyhood
thing I never grew out of.

"The X-Files: Quagmire"

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)

News Streamer provides a script to play the most recent France 2 news report with Mplayer.

The French TV station France 2 has been kind enough to make its news broadcasts available on the Internet. However, this has been done in a way thats not particularly friendly to non-Microsoft products.

This script makes things easier by checking for the availability of the most recent news report and then playing it using Mplayer.

The checking for the availability of an episode is done using a mmsrip.

If its useful to you to watch the news at a different speed, a speed parameter may be passed to this script (eg f2 0.5 to play at half speed)

If the most recent episode is not available, this script will keep searching back until it finds the most recent available episode.

It wont keep searching for ever, however, and gives up after 10 episodes.

To be honest, if it doesnt find anything after 10 episodes it probably means that theres a problem at their end, theyve change their URL format, or youve got some kind of network trouble.

gPodder is a Podcast reciever/catcher written in Python and pyGTK.

gPodder project manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like.

If you are interested in Podcast feeds, simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for you automatically.

If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It supports download resume, if the server supports it.

Hpodder is a tool to scan and download podcasts. Such tools are often called podcatchers.
Hpodder is a command-line tool for Linux. The project has quite a few features. A few highlights are that it is easy to learn and use, has automatic discovery of feed metadata, and can import iPodder settings.
Enhancements:
- This is the first production release.
- Feeds or episodes that repeatedly return errors are now automatically pruned.
- Cleaning of download areas was improved.
- Bugs were fixed.

This application is a GUI tool written with the Gnome/GTK libraries. It can be used to view Television Show details and extract tyStreams (TiVo proprietary media streams) from a network enabled TiVo device. This application will run in Linux (and possibly other Unix varients).

gtivo has many user configurable preferences. Each option is grouped into a category based on any options which may be related to it.

TiVo Device - Options

TiVo Hostname (no default)
Specify the hostname or IP of the TiVo device.
Telnet Port (depricated as is not used)
This field is depricated and is no longer used. It will be removed in the future.
Web Server Port (defaults to 80 - http access)
Specify which port on the TiVo can be used for http requests (gtivo expects that Tivoweb is installed). This feature is used with the "Copy Show Information from Web Server" feature described below.
Extraction Port (defaults to 7900 - the gserver port)
Specify which port gserver is running on.
Transaction Log (no default)
A transaction log will be created (at the time of the writing, this feature was not implemented -- see sourceforge for more information). This feature may be useful for debugging gtivo.

Storage - Options

Save As (defaults to "%p/%e%f")
For more information on this, please see the section Save As below.
Location (no default)
Specify the base directory that extracted information will be saved in.

Extraction - Options

TiVo Command (defaults to "ExtractStream -s")
What command should gtivo run on the TiVo? NOTE: the TiVo side server (gserver) must be able to run the specified command.
MPEG (default is OFF)
Convert the extracted show to MPEG? If MPEG is selected, the tyStream option will be deselected.
tyStream (Raw) (default is ON)
Save the file in the format that the TiVo provides -- tyStream; the TiVo proprietary format. If tyStream is select, the MPEG option will be deselected.
Store Chunks Seperately (default is OFF)
TiVo stores shows in chunks. This option will save the shows in chunks. See the information in the Save As section for information on the naming convention which will be used.
Copy Show Information from Web Server (default is OFF)
Use the TiVo web server (tivoweb) to obtain detailed show information?

Save As Options
If the user is familiar with xmms (music file playing software for Linux) or grip (music file creation software for Linux) the following formats may be familiar. When specified in the "Save As" field, the individual options will be expanded to values found within the selected shows data type. The following table will detail the options and their meanings.

The Save As field is used in conjunction with the Location setting. Location sets the base directory for saving shows and typically looks like: "/path" The Save As field is joined to the Location field with a "/" (forward slash) character tying the two together.

Save As Options
%e Episode - The title of the specific showing.
%f File Extension - used to allow gtivo to save the file as a .ty (tyStream), .mpeg (MPEGv2) or .html file.
%p Program - The name of the Show (for example: Enterprise, CHiPs, A-Team)
%s Station - The station that the show was recorded on.
%F Internal TiVo data (seems silly to use)
%P Internal TiVo data (seems silly to use)
%d Date (seems silly to use)
%D Day (seems even sillier to use)

After selecting a show (or shows) from the [Now] Show[ing] list, gtivo will attempt to extract the show for the user. A seperate dialog will pop up showing progress. An "Estimated Time to Arrival" (ETA) field will be displayed and updated with the progress bar. The expanded information (from the Save As preference will be displayed).