TV Related Software
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Here, we aim to provide useful information about software applications that are directly related to or which are generally useful in some respect to the reception and manipulation of TV signals on Linux based computer systems.
In order to be most useful for the reader, this page is divided into three sections:
- An Alphabetical Overview Listing
- A Categorized section for software useful for DVB TV cards (for both full featured and budget cards, as this distinction doesn't make a difference for most of the software)
- A Categorized section for software useful for analog TV cards (also see the information currently contained in the video4linux wiki).
Note: If you're new to this aspect of computing, rather than trying single programs one after another, you might be more interested in how to quickly get a fully working system as described in the "Example setups" page. Or perhaps instead you may simply want to perform some quick tests on your system, such as like those outlined in the "Testing your DVB device" article.
An Alphabetical Overview Listing
| Software Application |
Supports Analogue |
Supports DVB |
Recording Capabilities |
Offline Playback |
Editing Capabilities |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dvbsak | n | y | ||||
| dvbshout | n | y | Stream radio to Icecast/multicast | |||
| dvbsnoop | n | y | ||||
| dvbstream | n | y | y | n | n | a streaming utilitity. Part of the DVB tools project |
| dvbyell | n | y | n | n | n | A DVB streaming service. |
| DVBStreamer | n | y | PSI/SI tracking and correctly streams all PIDs including PCR | |||
| gdvb | ||||||
| GeeXboX | ||||||
| getstream | n | y | ||||
| GStreamer | n | y | ||||
| Kaffeine | n | y | y | y | n | Desktop TV Solution |
| KaxTV | obsoleted | |||||
| Klear | y | |||||
| LinuxTV Drivers | y | y | n | n | n | |
| LinuxTV dvb-apps | n | y | y | ? | ? | contains dvbscan, {a,c,t,s}zap ... |
| LinVDR | ||||||
| MEncoder | y | y | y | n | y | encoding suite of tools |
| Me TV | n | y | y | n | n | GNOME based DVB TV viewer |
| Mini DVB Linux | y | Distribution with live-CD | ||||
| MPlayer | y | y | y | y | n | multi-functional media player |
| mumudvb | n | y | n | n | n | Stream multiples channels in multicast (each channel in different group) |
| MythTV | y | y | y | y | y | Media Center |
| pluto | ||||||
| ProjectX | ||||||
| xawtv | y | y * | y | y | n | * only v4 supports DVB |
| XdTV | y | y | y | TV viewing app. Development stopped | ||
| xine | y | y | y | multi-functional media player | ||
| ZapDvb |
Categorized software for use with Digital (DVB) TV cards
DVB Utility Suites or Standalone Tools
To be Categorized
- Show Videotext/Teletext
- Tools for testing, tuning, ...
- JustDvb-It [1] - a suite/set of tools useful for DVB stream creation and manipulation, especially for interactive digital television (i.e. DVB-MHP)
Network Tools for DVB Streams
Standalone Software to Watch Digital TV
Media Center Software
- Elisa [2]
- Entertainer Project [3]
- Freevo
- GeeXboX
- Morphine.TV [4]
- My Media System [5]
- MythTV
- Mini DVB Linux ??
- oxine [6]
- pluto
- Rage (see the Monday, 27 March 2006 entry)
- SageTV [7]
- VDR - VDR is one of the most popular TV applications. It features watching TV, recording storage on disk, EPG, Dolby Digital, playback, multi
language and much more. VDR, although originally written for FF cards, works also with budget cards, if one installs the VDR Software Decoder Plugin. ...
Media Center Distributions
Complete operating systems tailored for easy installation of everything required to have a media centre.
...
Media Players
i.e. for offline playback of captured material:
- Kaffeine
- KMPlayer
- MPlayer
- SMPlayer
- Totem
- VLC media player
- Xine
...
Tools for Editing
....
Categorized software for use with Analogue TV cards
Analogue Utility Suites or Standalone Tools
Standalone Software to Watch Analogue TV
- fftv [11]
- Gnometv [12]
- Gv4l [13]
- Kdetv
- aka QtVision and aka the former KWinTV [14]
- MPlayer
- tvtime [15]
- xawtv
- XdTV
- Zapping [16] - a TV viewer for the Gnome desktop.