Free tv guide listings software for linux

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.

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)

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

Debian Desktop Users Guide project is a guide which is targeted toward new Debian users.
It brings up-to-date and effective documentation to new Debian users.
This document is based on the Progeny users guide.
This guide is planned to be released in conjunction with Sarge.
Enhancements:
- sections 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 have been rewritten.

xmltvdb is a fairly simplistic tv listings database/viewer for xmltv listings. It uses PostgreSQL and mod_perl.

Creating the Database

First off, youll want to create your database. The schema.sql file contains the basics youll need. The mkschema.sh will replace the placeholder schema name within schema.sql with the value you pass it as an argument, and spit the result out to stdout. So, you might do something like:

./mkschema.sh xmltv | psql database xmltvuser

And assuming the xmltvuser has create schema privileges (important!) it should create everything. If you want separate users for schema ownership versus reading/writing data, youll have to setup the grants yourself. The pgadmin3 tool makes doing such mass grants easy.

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.