Free xmltv software for linux

XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XML.
The idea of XMLTV is to separate out the backend (getting the listings) from the frontend (displaying them for the user), and to implement useful operations like picking out your favourite programmes as filters that read and write XML documents.
At present there are backends grabbing TV listings for Canada, the USA, Britain and Ireland, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, France, Norway, and Romania.
There are filters to sort the listings by date, to remove shows that have already been broadcast, and a couple of programmes to organize your viewing by storing preferences of what shows you watch. There are a couple of backends to produce printed output.
Enhancements:
- This release includes new grabbers for Croatia and Switzerland and miscellaneous updates to many different grabbers, including a fix for the tv_grab_na_dd startime problem.

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.

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.

MythDora 3.0 is now using FC5 along with MythTV-0.20 all on DVD. This DVD will install on various PVR builds. A few changes have been made since the 2.32 version. Hopefully good ones. One big change is that version 3.0 now runs on an SMP kernel. Another big change is that MythDora-3.0 now uses KDE and goes onto a DVD rather than a CD. With change and additions, things just couldnt fit on a CD any longer. The ISO size isnt too much bigger, about 940mb total.
There will no longer be any need for a Unichrome version as the needed bits are now in the modular Xorg-7.0. What is now being used is a single Openchrome Via rpm from the Epia repository at washington.kelkoo.net. This should be enough to allow hardware acceleration for Epia mainboards and S3 video card users.
Please read the F.A.Q. if you have any initial questions. Also look over the README file thats located on your disk. This is where you will find instructions on certain parts of MythDora. There is also an Install Notes at the top of this page which gives you a general idea of how to set things up in mythtvsetup.
MythDora 3.0 uses an auto installer that allows your system to install only on the first hard drive and not on your remaining physical hard drives. The installer uses LVM which will allow you to add another HD to your volume group if you so choose.
For those of you new to MythDora, the easiest way to install would be to use the auto install feature. This will install every package on the disk, automatically format your disk(s), create a user mythtv, setup networking, setup MythTV etc., all on the fly. When mythtvsetup finishes, mythfilldatabase will automatically start but only if you have chosen an all-in-one setup and have a valid Data Direct subscription. XMLTV users will need to run mythfilldatabase --manual in the provided xterm screen if need be. After that a reboot will take place as this seems to install your tuner card(s) a little better.
Please be sure to make the appropriate changes in the frontend setup in order for things to work correctly. This may include sound working properly, bitrate adjustment, resolution or changing channels etc.
One thing you need to make sure of is when you install in either auto or custom, please make sure you disable selinux during install !!!
Its also recommended that you do not do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" , "apt-get upgrade" or "yum upgrade" as you run the risk of breaking something. You have been warned!!.
I really want to thank those of you who gave me feedback during the beta testing. This couldnt have been done without. I really appreciate it.
Also I want to thank one of our members here, inm8, for creating the kickass new logo for MythDora. He did an outstanding job and I dont think youll be disappointed. I also added in some more eye candy for your viewing pleasure.
Enhancements:
This is a second bugfix release to version 3.0. Hopefully the last. This is mainly to give Nvidia users the chance to install Legacy drivers for older video cards. I also included a new mythstreamtv rpm with corrected code that should allow you to kill the vlc stream now. Thanks to Jeffrey Kosowsky.
- Added older 8776 Nvidia drivers
- Corrected mythstreamtv
- Updated to latest stable kernel 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5smp
- Updated to MythTV 0.20-148
- Updated ivtv 0.8.2-123
- Added two new remotes (Nebula & Technisat)

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.

PyTVGrab is an XMLTV library and tv_grabbers written in Python.

Download the library and the grabber u want to use. Extract them using the standard "tar xfvz package-name.tar.gz". Then install the library using "python setup.py install", and run the same command for the grabber itself.

Now u have the grabber and the needed library installed. You can now start the grabber by using the "tv_grab_XX_XXX" command (for example "tv_grab_be_tvb"). To get further usage information run your grabber with --help. The usage is compatible with any perl XMLTV scripts.

This is a Perl/Tk frontend to the tv programming database available at http://labs.zap2it.com, and uses the CPAN module XMLTV to do the fetching.
This is a multi-threaded perl application, which will download and display concurrently.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. You need to go to http://labs.zap2it.com and sign up for an account. You need to use the xmltv developer certificate code C< ZYZM-TE5O-SBUT > (Letter O) to register. When registering, I have found it is better to NOT answer anything with a blank or zero. Always give a "true" answer.
After registering, you must set up your configuration, and choose your service provider, and personal channel selection. Write down your given username and password.
Your registration will be good for 3 months, and can be renewed after re-filling out the questionaire.
2. You must install the XMLTV module from http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/ It comes with a very nice README file explaining what you need to do. If you have already done Step(1) above, you will need to run your areas grabber script from the xmltv distribution. For North America it is tv_grab_na_dd You must run your grabber script once, to configure and setup your .xmltv directory and configuration....so.... tv_grab_na_dd --configure
Answer the questions, and select UTC as your default time. That way, you download files in UTC time, and the display program will convert it to local time.
After running --configure, you should have file ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_na_dd.conf with your channels and username. To make the downloading of new files run without prompting for a password, put your password in ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_na_dd.conf. Your file should look similar to this:
username: zentara
password: xc78vjk3n4
timezone: UTC
lineup: MI21648:-
channel: 46 AMC
channel: 45 ARTS
channel: 62 BET
3. Run the ztk-tvguide script. If you dont have any XML files downloaded it will prompt you to Download files at the first run. Just click the Download button, and you will be asked "how many days forward?" Today is day 0, so 8 will get you 1 week ahead. If you already have a file for that day, it will not be downloaded again. If you need to redownload it, for some odd reason, just delete it manually from the xml storage location, which is ~/.xmltv/ztk_tvguide/
The display program is multi-threaded, so you can download and browse at the same time. There are 2 display indicators, one for downloading, and one for converting the xml.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a UTC-to-local time conversion problem.
- The script now relies on xmltvs downloader script (and configuration file) to adjust to local time.
- You may need to edit your xmltv configuration file tv_grab_na_dd.conf to adjust your timezone offset from UTC to local.
- It also fixes a bug which could cause cross-linking of programs across days.