Me TV

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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.

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.

Features currently include:

  • Completely mouse driven (Hooray!)
  • Current channel and program information
  • Instant Record
  • Double-click fullscreen
  • Screenshots
  • Standard viewing

    Standard viewing

  • Showing EPG

    Showing EPG

  • Context Menu

    Context Menu

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

Homepage: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/

Download Source: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/+download

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