Free xmltv 0.5.45 software for linux

xmltv2html project is a Ruby script that generates a HTML page from the output of XMLTV.

The generated HTML page will have the channels listed on the vertical axis and the shows times on the horizontal axis. The shows information is displayed via DHTML popups. Virtually every aspect of the HTML page can be customized via the configuration file and CSS file.

VALID XMLTV

It is very important to have a valid xmltv file prior to using xmltv2html.
The xmltv distribution has two programs that are vital:
tv_sort will sort the listings by date and add stop times (see man tv_sort)
tv_grep will filter programmes and shows (see man tv_grep).

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.

MythTV project is a suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.
MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows, listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a remote.
Main features:
- Basic live-tv functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
- Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
- Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent to the user.
- Compresses video in software using rtjpeg (from Nuppelvideo) or mpeg4 (from libavcodec). Full support for Hardware MPEG-2 encoder cards (Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350). Preliminary support for DVB cards and the new pcHDTV tuner card.
- Support for the (very nice looking) hardware MPEG-2 decoder and TV out present on the Hauppauge PVR-350.
- Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
- Grabs program information using xmltv.
- A fully themeable menu to tie it all together.
The television portion allows you to do the following:
- You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television.
- You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one program at a time.
- You can have multiple servers, each with multiple capture cards in them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the Master backend.
- You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance), each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any program that was recorded by any of the servers. Clients can be diskless and controlled entirely by a remote control.
- You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2, MJPEG, DVB or HDTV capture devices. With appropriate hardware, MythTV can control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and satellite TV systems.
- Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from Zap2It.com, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Services. This free service is called DataDirect, and provides MythTV almost two weeks of scheduling information. Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. MythTV uses this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number of programs that can be recorded if you dont have enough tuners.
Other modules in MythTV include:
- MythGallery, a picture-viewing application
- MythVideo, a media-viewer for content not created within MythTV
- MythDVD, a DVD viewer / ripper
- MythMusic, a music playing / ripping application which supports MP3 and FLAC
- MythGame
- MythWeather
- MythNews, a RSS news grabber
- MythBrowser, a web browser
- MythWeb, which allows you to control your MythTV system using a web browser. With MythWeb, you can schedule recordings, delete files, change keybindings and more. With proper security, you may even schedule a program over the Internet and have it immediately acted on by the scheduler.
- MythPhone, phone and videophone using SIP.

The idea behind dvbd is to make maximum use of your DVB card by allowing multiple channels on the same frequency to be tuned. It is split into a daemon (dvbd) and client programs (dvbcat, dvbsched, dvblist). It is possible to associate a priority with a connection to the daemon, so that (depending on the given priority) the tuner can be made available by dropping connections of inferior priority.

A web frontend to dvbsched, called dvbdguide, is included to facilitate the scheduling of dvbd recording activities. Please note this requires an XMLTV datafeed. Check out a captured dvbdguide page.

The daemon has a configuration file which by default is /etc/dvbd/config. The format of the file is lines of key=value. Line comments can be begun with #.

The following configuration options are available:

socket
the (unix) socket to listen on. Default is /var/run/dvbd/dvbd.socket
pid
the pid file to write to once it has become a daemon. Default is /var/run/dvbd/dvbd.pid
log
the log file to write to. Default is /var/log/dvbd.log
schedule
the schedule file to write to. Default is /var/spool/dvbd/schedule
debug
the debug level (default is 0) If a higher debug level is set, dvbd will not go into the background.
numcards
the number of DVB cards your system supports
card0
the first DVB card. The format of this field is type:frontend:channels Where

type may be one of dvb-t, dvb-s or dvb-t.
frontend is the path to the frontend (tuner) for the card
channels is the path to the tzap/szap/czap format channels.conf file for the card.

If no cards are specified, a default of one dvb-t card is assumed with channels file /etc/tzap.channels.conf and frontend /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0

At the moment there are three client programs. dvbcat, dvblist and dvbsched. dvbcat can be used to extract a stream from the dvbd for live TV.

For example:

$ dvbcat dvb-t "BBC ONE" | mplayer -

dvbsched is used to schedule a recording. Note that an output file must be specified whose containing directory must be owned by the user issuing the request. The directory must also be writable by the dvbd program.

The time format is in at(1) format. See ats manpage for more information about it.

For example:

mkdir /tmp/recordings
dvbsched dvb-t "ITV 2" 19.20 32 /tmp/recordings/itv2.mpg

If there is a clash the program will ask you if you want to cancel your job.

dvblist shows the channels available to tune at the given priority (default is 10).

For example:

dvblist dvb-t

If there are some existing connections the list of channels may be shorter than the full list.

A TV Guide program that reads an XMLTV file and presents it in an elegant easy-to-use interface.

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.

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.
Enhancements:
- This version of furious_tv fixes a few miscellaneous bugs in the code and also adds support for non-US TV listings. Apparently in countries other than the US, the channel numbers vary a great deal (even in small areas), so non-US users needed a way to change channel numbers and have those changes persist when new listings were loaded into the database.
- Version 1.4 adds an option to ftv_listings ("-r") that instructs the parser to use the channel numbers in the listings to override the channel numbers in the database. This is really only a good idea if the listings probably have the correct channel numbers (e.g. US listings obtained using XMLTVs tv_grab_na grabber).
- One last point to keep in mind is that the channel numbers are preserved by looking at the channel names, so the channel names should not be changed manually because then ftv_listings will not recognize the channel as already in the database.