Free television software for linux

Media Listings project aims to provide a comfortable way to see the TV listings of supported TV channels. More exactly, it displays defined number of programs, which are yet to come, based on current date and time.

Clicking one of the displayed programs will start your default browser and navigate to appropriate additional info page of the program.

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

shalVideo is a TV record scheduling program, the goal is that you can just use your computer just like a video recorder.

shalVideo just gives you the abstraction from other tools you MUST have installed, look at the Requirements for details.

shalVideo reads the channels list from a file that you have to write down, or download if there is one for your place. Right now, thanks to JCamGra, you can create the channels file from xawtv config using the xawitv2svch script

Station Info program searches for and displays AM, FM, and TV station entries from databases supplied by the US Federal Communications Commission (also known as the FCC).

The station-info program provides many ways of selecting a collection of stations for display, and several criteria by which these stations can be sorted.

Detailed information on each station is available, including an antenna radiation pattern, ownership information, and whatever else seems useful.

The program is currently available in source code form only. It has been developed and tested on a GNU/Linux platform, but should build without problem on any platform that supports the Gtk+ toolkit and the Gnome libraries.

tvtime is a high quality television application for use with video capture cards on Linux systems.
tvtime processes the input from a capture card and displays it on a computer monitor or projector.
The following is a list of capture card drivers for Linux and how well they are supported by tvtime. If you have more up-to-date information about using any of these drivers, please let me.
bttv version 0.9.x (2.6 kernels)
bttv version 0.7.x (2.4 kernels)
saa7134
cx88
rivatv
dvb-kernel / saa7146
mach64 v4l2
ivtv
usbvision
zoran
v3tv
GATOS
marvel
Enhancements:
- Missing translations were added.
- The "noop" command for removing key bindings was fixed.

TVProg project is a TV guide software.

TVProg is TV guide software running as a Web server application. It fetches the TV guide source from tvmovie.de and stores it in a MySQL database.

TV shows can be browsed online. Theres also a vcr wrapper script that, running as a cron job, is able to record scheduled tv shows in DivX.

The TVProg package contains a script "list.cgi" that is run as a CGI script to browse the tv guide. You can select channels, do searches or look what is running right now. Theres a detail view for every single tv show.

Cookies are supported for keeping the view properties while browsing.

A cron job script, "vcrwrapper.pl", acts as a wrapper for vcr. Run it every minute and you will have a nice frontend for vcr: In the tv show detail view you can click the record link to schedule it for recording.

There is also a "profile" section where users can subscribe to receive daily tvshow mailings. Also, a user may activate a search, done by a cron job, and receive the search results via email.

This way you can look for a special tvshow or movie without having to look into the listings every day.

"The Simpsons" chalkboard openings project consists of a quote collection of Bart Simpsons chalkboard-writings.

It is a collection of Bart Simpson’s chalkboard-writings from the opening credits of episodes of the television show “The Simpsons”, packaged up for use with 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 chalkboard

DODGEBALL STOPS AT THE GYM DOOR
DODGEBALL STOPS AT THE GYM DOOR
DODGEBALL STOPS AT THE GYM DOOR
DODGEBALL STOPS AT THE GYM DOOR

Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode BABF12

ftv_gnome is a frontend for furious_tv.

furious_tv is a set of tools to take XMLTV TV listings and enable a UNIX system to automatically record programs off of a TV card. It is written in C and uses a SAX parser for maximum speed and efficiency.