XawTV

XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or video4linux. It also contains various command-line utilities for grabbing images and AVI movies, tuning in TV stations, etc. The package includes: 

    * xawtv-X11 application for watching TV.
    * motv- motif-based GUI for xawtv.
    * fbtv- TV application for the GNU/linux console; uses the 2.2.x
      framebuffer devices.
    * v4lctl- command line tool to set video4linux parameters 
    * streamer- command line tool for capturing still images and avi-videos 
    * radio- curses-based radio app.
    * webcam- captures images and uploads them with FTP to a
      Web-Server in a endless loop.
    * alevtd- http server for videotext pages.

Last updated 4 May, 2005


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  • TVfonts (XawTV does not include fonts) (Use Requirement)
  • libjpeg (Build Prerequisite)
  • curses (Build Prerequisite)
  • gnu make != 3.79.1 (Build Prerequisite)
  • X11R6 (for building all X apps) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • OpenMotif (for mtt and motv) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • libzvbi (for scantv (Weak Prerequisite)
  • mtt (Weak Prerequisite)
  • alevtd) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • libquicktime (Weak Prerequisite)
  • alsa (Weak Prerequisite)
  • aalib (all three for building) (Weak Prerequisite)
Related Projects

XawTVapplet, mjpeg, vloopback

Subprograms

xawtv, motv, fbtv, v4lctl, streamer, radio, webcam, alevtd

Versions

20050221 devel

20050221 devel released 2005-02-21

  • Released: 29 Aug, 2004
  • Code Maturity: Stable
3.94

3.94 stable released 2004-08-29

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