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Me TV 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. |
Me TV 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. |
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* Very simple installation and set up |
* Very simple installation and set up |
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== Why Me TV? == |
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== Links == |
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Project: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/ |
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Download: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/+download |
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Revision as of 09:04, 15 August 2007
Me TV, it's TV for me computer
Me TV is a digital television viewer for GNOME.
Me TV 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.
Features currently include:
- Completely mouse driven (Hooray!)
- Current channel and program information
- Instant Record
- Double-click fullscreen
- Very simple installation and set up
- Me TV Screenshots Version 0.1
Standard viewing (v0.1)
Showing EPG (v0.1)
Context Menu (v0.1)
- Me TV Screenshots Version 0.2
Showing EPG (v0.2)
Showing EPG with description (v0.2)
Context Menu (v0.2)
It currently supports only DVB-T but I'm willing to add support for other DVB types because it seems straight forward. It just needs to be tested.
Why Me TV?
I've tried quite a few DVB solutions but none of them seemed to suit my purpose. Please note that my comments about the following applications are not meant as a criticism. My intention is not to insult the excellent work that many projects have done. If fact I've used (plagiarised) the concepts for my own work. This is merely a list of why these applications didn't suit my purpose. If these issues resonate with you then Me TV might be what you're looking for:
- GXine - Not DVB specific, can't record, no event data
- Kaffeine - It's KDE based (hence no fantastic under GNOME) has a very complicated UI and not DVB specific
- Klear - Awesome except, it's KDE based and crashes on mouse wheel and doesn't release DVB device immediately, ouch!
- MPlayer - Not mouse driven, doesn't show events
- Xine - The best even though DVB support is experimental, recording is not intuitive (Menu 2), UI doesn't resize properly with Beryl (this is probably Beryl's fault), can't set recording directory
- XdTV - Ugly (sorry guys), X based (so the controls are primitive) and couldn't get it to work
- VDR - TV-OUT only, not what I'm trying to do
- MythTV - Full Media centre, keyboard only and I can't really type up a doc while watching TV
- Freevo - Doesn't officially support mouse/pointer, designed as a full media solution.
- GeeXboX - Full distribution
Links
Project: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/
Download: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/+download