XawTV

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XawTV

http://bytesex.org/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.

Related Projects

• XawTVapplet
• Mjpeg
• Vloopback

Download

Download version 3.94 (stable)
released on 29 August 2004

Categories

• Interface:x-window-system
• Use:video
• Video:viewing
• Works-with:video

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2orlater	Janet Casey	18 July 2003

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Gerd Knorr	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Bug Tracking,Developer,Support	E-mail	mailto:video4linux-list@redhat.com

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	libzvbi (for scantv
Weak prerequisite	OpenMotif (for mtt and motv)
Weak prerequisite	mtt
Required to use	TVfonts (XawTV does not include fonts)
Weak prerequisite	X11R6 (for building all X apps)
Weak prerequisite	alevtd)
Required to build
Weak prerequisite	libquicktime
Required to build	libjpeg
Weak prerequisite	alsa
Required to build	curses
Weak prerequisite	aalib (all three for building)

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 4 May 2005.

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