Analogue Utility Suites or Standalone Tools | DVB Utility Suites and Standalone Tools
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Analogue Tools for performing frequency scans
| DVB Tools for performing frequency scans.. also see Testing your DVB device (PCI, USB, ..) .. scan & zap stuff
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Analogue Tools for tuning | DVB Tools for tuning.. also see Testing your DVB device (PCI, USB, ..) .. scan & zap stuff |
Analogue Tools for signal strength | DVB Tools for signal strength and monitoring |
Standalone Software to Watch Analogue TV
.. also see V4L TV Viewing Analogue Capturing / Frame Grabbing Utilities
| Standalone Software to Watch Digital TV
DVB Tools for unattended/headless recording
Misc Tutorials, Howtos, Usage Info & Guides:
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Media Center SoftwareIn addition to offline playback of captured & downloaded media material, many will feature live TV viewing and capturing facilities
.. | Media Center DistributionsComplete operating systems tailored for easy installation of everything required to have a media centre. Audio technica audacity software download.
.. Standalone Media Playersi.e. for offline playback of captured materials
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Analogue TV Streaming Utilities | Network Tools for DVB StreamsStreaming Software for Digital TV |
Analogue TV Tools to Show Videotext/Teletext/Interactive Content/Closed Captioning
| DVB Tools to Show Videotext/Teletext/Interactive Content/Closed Captioning
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Analogue TV Program Guide Tools | DVB Program Guide Tools
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Software Application | Supports Analogue | Supports DVB | Recording Capabilities | Offline Playback | Editing Capabilities | Channel storage | Language | Comments |
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AleVT | y | y | Program to use Teletext/Videotext on analog and digital TV | |||||
Antenna DTV | n | y | y | n | n | t channels.conf format | Python | Watch, record and monitor signal level of digital TV |
dvb-fe-tool | n | y | n | n | n | C | Gets frontend parameters, sets the delivery system and monitors an already running frontend. | |
dvb-format-convert | n | y | n | n | n | dvbv5, channel, zap and vdr (for output) file formats | C | Get frontend parameters and set the delivery system |
dvbd | y | C++ | Traditional UNIX daemon for DVB | |||||
dvbice | n | y | y | C | Recompress and stream audio and video to Icecast/HTTP in Theora/Vorbis | |||
dvbsak | n | y | ||||||
dvbshout | n | y | Stream radio to Icecast/multicast | |||||
dvbsnoop | n | y | C | |||||
dvbstream | n | y | y | n | n | a streaming utilitity. Part of the DVB tools project | ||
DVBStreamer | n | y | sqlite, XMLTV format | C | PSI/SI tracking and correctly streams all PIDs including PCR | |||
dvbv5-scan | n | y | n | n | n | dvbv5, channel, zap and vdr (for output) file formats | C | program to scan DVB channels/transponders |
dvbv5-scan-gtk | n | y | n | n | n | dvbv5, channel, zap and vdr (for output) file formats | C | Gtk3+ GUI to scan DVB channels/transponders |
dvbv5-zap | n | y | y | n | n | dvbv5, channel and zap file formats | C | program to tune (zap) DVB channels/transponders/services, optionally recording or monitoring MPEG-TS streams |
dvbyell | n | y | n | n | n | A DVB streaming service. | ||
gdvb | ||||||||
GeeXboX | ||||||||
getstream | n | y | ||||||
GStreamer | n | y | ||||||
Gv4l | A GUI frontend for Transcode's V4L functions | |||||||
Kaffeine | n | y | y | y | n | own text format | C++ | Desktop TV Solution |
KaxTV | obsoleted | |||||||
Klear | y | |||||||
LinuxTV dvb-apps | n | y | y | ? | ? | {a,c,t,s} channels.conf formats | C | contains dvbscan, {a,c,t,s}zap .. |
MEncoder | y | y | y | n | y | C | encoding suite of tools | |
Me TV | n | y | y | n | n | SQLite | C++ | GNOME based DVB TV viewer |
Mini DVB Linux | y | Distribution with live-CD | ||||||
MPlayer | y | y | y | y | n | channels.conf | C | 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 | mysql | C++ | Media Center |
NextPVR | n | y | y | y | n | dvbv5 / sqlite | C++ / C# | |
pluto | ||||||||
ProjectX | ||||||||
RedButton MHEG Engine | MHEG-5 engine | |||||||
scan-s2 | n | y | n | n | n | C | frequency scanning utility which supports DVB APIv5 (for DVB-S2) | |
showtime | C | OpenGL-based media player | ||||||
szap-s2 | y | y | C | tuning utility which supports DVB APIv5 (for DVB-S2) | ||||
tv_grab_dvb | y | XMLTV format | C | dumps DVB EPG info in XMLTV format | ||||
HTS Tvheadend | y | y | y | y | y | XMLTV format | C | TV streaming server |
UpdateDVB | n | y | y | n | n | n | C++ | A DVB tuning and analysis tool for Linux |
VDR | y * | y | y | y | y | VDR format channels.conf | C++ | analogue with plugins only DVB APIv5 since 1.7.2 |
VLC media player | ||||||||
w_scan | n | y | n | n | n | VDR channels.conf kaffeine zap/xine tuning data for scan | C | ATSC/DVB-C/S/S2/T frequency scanner |
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 |