XdTV

Summary

XdTV is a software that allows you to watch, record & stream TV.

It interacts with AleVT for Teletext and Nxtvepg for NextView.

It uses the v4l/v4l2, bktr & DVB APIs. It can use some deinterlacing filters

and can record video files in various containers (AVI, MPEG, OGG, etc.) with many codecs:

FFMpeg, XviD, Ogg Theora & Vorbis, DivX.

It has also some plugin capabilities.

http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/images/generalLogoSmall.png

Caution

• ONLY XdTV version 2.4.0 and higher is DVB-T compatible.
• WE CURRENTLY ONLY SUPPORT DVB-T

Features

• XdTV 2.4.0 is the first Analogic & DVB-T version:
• Scanning DVB channels is fully supported.
• An offset can be set in case of scanning problem (usefull for some cards).
• Possibility to switch from one channel to another through a GUI.
• The DVB-T initialization is always synchronized with the LinuxTV data.
• Possibilities to record & stream a DVB-T show.
• You need to install the SDL and Curl libraries to use the XdTV DVB-T support.

Todo

• The DVB-T Teletext, Nextview don't work yet.

• If someone find a way to avoid patching the FFmpeg library, we are interested in his solution. Thus, it will be also possible to activate the DVB with an external FFmpeg library. We will be happy to commit it into the XdTV source code.

Install & test it

	$>xdtv -dvb

Note:

• 1) You can switch from a dvb channel to another one but no to an analogic(V4l/v4l2) one ! This feature should be supported in the next release of XdTV.

• 2) When your init file has been downloaded, and if you have some problem to detect the DVB-T networks, you can try some frequency offsets in the "DVB init" GUI : choose the offset you want and click on "scan". No need to download and save the init file at every time you change the offset.

Pictures

http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/nightly-tarball/XdTV-DVB-T.png

Main Links

• XdTV Website
• XdTV SF.NET Download page
• XdTV WebCVS
• XdTV nightly tarball

Repositories

• Debian Repository
• Ubuntu Repository
• Gentoo Repository

Other Repositories

• Portage Gentoo Repository
• C. Marillat Debian Repository
• PLF Mandriva Repository
• Kwizart Fedora Core Repository
• Sebastien Corot Suse Repository