Free tv software for linux

GLTV is a tv viewing application written using OpenGL and SDL. It is designed to have an easy method of adding good looking on screen display (OSD) elements. Eventually i plan on adding support for XMLTV tv listings, so you can see whats on currently, and browse the tv listings from within the program, but i am currently just adding support for the basics, and trying to make the general look of the OSD nice. It uses alpha blending and double buffered reads, so you probably have to have a decent video card and cpu to run it well (it takes 50% of my tbird 1.2ghz machine (but only 1-2% of my 1.5gb of ram). it also uses a lot of textures (the video is a texture mapped onto a quad) so you might need to have a fair amount of video memory (i have a GeForce 2 gts with 32mb of ram, and it runs at a good speed).

It requires: a video4linux (1) capture card, OpenGL, Freetype 2, SDL and XMLwrapp. Theoretically, any v4l capture card should work, but i am using a bttv based one (Hauppauge, bt878), so it might not work too well with other cards, or cards using other drivers. If you are using another card and have success or problems with it, let me know so I can fix them if there is a problem (or add them to a list of known supported drivers).

Note: you must have a file called .gltvrc in your home directory. For an example with the default options, look at gltvrc.default in the source directory.

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

OnTV project is a GNOME Applet that can monitor current and upcoming TV programs.
OnTV is a GNOME Applet written in Python using PyGTK, it uses XMLTV files to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.
Main features:
- Program descriptions as tooltips.
- Remaining time of/until current/upcoming programs.
- Preferences dialog for selecting what channels to monitor and more.

fftv project is a TV and radio viewer and recorder.
fftv is a TV viewer for use with TV cards and Video for Linux. It also features a radio user interface.
It can support recording of various formats and codecs including MPEG, AVI, and Ogg. It supports remote control if LIRC is installed.
It supports scheduled power-on/off recording/reminding if tcron is installed.
Main features:
- Ffmpeg with TV window(v4l, video for linux, tv card), all new Graphical User Interface written in GTK 2.x
- FM radio tuner support (all new GUI)
- User interface of Control pannel / Channel list / Codec-format(mpeg, mpeg4, vob, ogg, avi, etc)/bitrate/framerate
- Start/pause/stop recording, automatic file name numbering
- True fullscreen in overlay mode by switching to 640x480 mode. Resetting screensaver automatically.
- TV screen black border cropping. (viewing & output of recording)
- TV preview index page (mosaic window)
- Channel monitor(subwindow): You can use this to skip commercials.
- Countdown shutdown, which shuts down your PC when the time is up.
- Support LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) (optional)
- Multi-state remote controller key mappings, support Reocrd/Stop functions on remote controllers without REC/STOP keys.
- Support mute, volume and media keys of your internet/multimedia keyboard
- Save the states of volume/MTS/color/contrast/brightness/hue by channel/dayofweek/hour
- Scheduled power-on/off recording/reminding of TV/radio programs
- External program schedule web page link
- On-screen display of time/channel/time of disk space remained for recording
- Optional window attributes of stay-on-top, multi-desktop sticky
- Built-in channel scan

JTVD is a graphical frontend for popular command line programs such as MEncoder, transcode, MJPEG Tools, toolame, DVDAuthor, and growisofs.
It makes it easy to grab videos from Video4Linux devices such as TV cards, encode the data to DVD-compatible MPEG2 files, and author and burn a video DVD with a simple title menu.
Main features:
- Watch TV
- Grab from the TV card to AVI files
- Schedule one or more recording tasks
- Encode video files to "DVD compatible" MPEG2 program streams
- Basic DVD authoring incl. creation of simple title menus
- Create the DVD image and burn it
- Burn an existing Video DVD image

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.

KatchTV is an "Internet TV" application for KDE. KatchTV makes it easy to subscribe to "TV" channels from all over the internet in the form of podcasts, so that you can browse channels, download shows, and watch them, all from one convenient interface.

KatchTV is very similar to Democracy TV, but focuses on KDE integration, using KHTMLPart and embedded players such as kaffeine. Its much faster, and lighter on resources if you run a KDE desktop without GTK apps.

Installation is easy, as long as your distro has PyKDE, PyQt, and Kaffeine. Just untar to some directory like /usr/local, and run the KatchTV program. You can also make a symlink to that executable from a directory like /usr/local/bin, and KatchTV will work out where to find its files.

Comments welcome; let me know if youve any problems using it.

Karamba TV offers TV listings of the main Spanish TV Channels.

Karamba TV is a SuperKaramba theme.