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.

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/images/xdtv_nantes.png

Main Links

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

Repositories

• Debian Repository
• Mandriva Repository
• Fedora Core Repository
• Ubuntu Repository
• Slackware Repository
• Suse Repository

Other Repositories

• Gentoo Repository