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XawTV - TV viewing application and utilities

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 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.

Obtaining

Web page	http://bytesex.org/xawtv/
Source tarball	http://bytesex.org/xawtv/xawtv_3.92.tar.gz

Version 3.92 (stable) released on 2004-07-21

Version 20040724 (devel) released on 2004-07-24

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List	<video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Developer List	<video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Bug List	<video4linux-list@redhat.com>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Developers	Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

Related information

Interfaces	X Window System
Programs	xawtv, motv, fbtv, v4lctl, streamer, radio, webcam, alevtd
Source languages	C
Use requirements	TVfonts (XawTV does not include fonts)
Build prerequisites	libjpeg, curses, gnu make != 3.79.1
Weak prerequisites	X11R6 (for building all X apps), OpenMotif (for mtt and motv), libzvbi (for scantv, mtt, alevtd), libquicktime, alsa, aalib (all three for building)
Related programs	XawTVapplet

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-07-18
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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