12 applications in order to watch the tv on linux

To watch the tv on linux is at this point a thing to the capacity of all is for the great created number of software to such scope, and also for their facility of configuration and uses. Here a list of 12 applications free/open source: 
 
Freevo
Freevo is a video recorder full-optional for Linux, BSD and Mac OS X, similar to MythTV. It concurs one to watch the tv, but also to reproduce video, DVD, photo, music easy. It allows also the planning of a program TV for the recording with a sintonizzatore TV, and the copy of backup of the DVD. The front-end of Freevo it is programmed in Python, and it uses the applications of third parts for many of its functions (es. MPlayer or Xine comes used in order to manage the multimediale reproduction). Freevo can be used in home theater a PC or average center, and is planned for being easy to manage with a simple remote control; moreover it is used from the GeeXboX plan.

GeeXboX
GeeXboX is a free distribution embedded of Linux, than sight to transform your computer in a so-called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a LiveCD standalone based on a distribution, it is ready for the start of the operating system that works on any Pentium x86 or Macintosh PowerPC. It can also be used on a disc of the computer, the entire system that come loaded in RAM.Nonostante memory the small dimension with image ISO, the distribution it is complete, it introduces the survey automatic rifle of the hardware and therefore it does not demand the addition of some driver. It supports the reproduction nearly every type of audio/video and rows of image and all the codec known concurring the reproduction of ldi every type of support: CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.
GeeXboX moreover comes supplied with a complete series of instruments that concurs with the sviluppatori to add to packages and extra functions easy, but that it could also be used for giving life to many dedicated Linux systems embedded.

KatchTV
KatchTV Internet TV is an application for KDE. Similar to I aim Media Player, KatchTV concurs with the customers to find and to see channels TV types them (in form of podcast). Making clic on a push-button feed of a channel from a situated web like VODStock, the customers can enroll themselves to that channel. All the subscribers to the channels can see a list of episodes available and can unload episodes to they chosen. Any unloaded episode can be observed directly from KatchTV.

Kdetv
Kdetv is a program that allows to watch the television on KDE (even if is one of the programs “Extragear”, separately published), that it allows to the customers of Linux and UNIX to visualize television programs on own computer, obviously if possesses a card of tuning TV. Besides this last one, other requirement are driver ALSA or OSS (for the audio), video4linux, video4linux2, or XVideo-input (for the video).

LinuxMCE
LinuxMCE (Linux Media Center Edition) is a free software and open source planned in order to concur with a computer to act like a HTPC (Home Theater PC) with personal an integrated video recorder from domotica functionalities that allow the control of various apsetti of the house, comprised the lighting system, the climate, the emergency and surveillance, and of I telephone cellular full-optional with video system conference.

LinuxTV
LinuxTV is a plan carried ahead from a group of volunteers who develop to software legacies to the television type them for the operating system Linux. The community develops and maintains the driver of subsystem DVB that is part of the kernel 2.6.x. Kernel of Linux and LinuxTV CVS comprises a good number of driver available for cards Pci and more common devices USB, but subsystem “DVB Core” watches also towards so-called “the set-top-box”.
The LinuxTV plan has initial state started from a German society, the Berlin, with free the objective to distribute software and open source for the production, the distribution and the reception of the television it types them. 

Medium My System
Medium My System is an Open Source application for Linux, that it manages, visualizes and carries out multimediali contents, like video, music, images, etc platforms the objective of this application is Set and HTPCs.
Medium My System is in phase of development from 2002 and was previously famous like MPEG Menu System V2, but it has changed its name in the month of October 2006, with version 1.0.8 of Medium My System in order to reflect its better puts into effect them function. Medium My System has been written originally like a software of front-end for card DXR3, but progressively its functionalities have been extended a lot that now support DVB, SDL, X11, frame buffer and systems of output.
With the exception of Media Center MCE they of Microsoft trades, or also of “free” the Centers Average, like Freevo, MythTV or LinuxMCE, MMS does not have built-in function TV of default, but she offers the possibility to integrate it.

MythDora
MythDora is a Linux distribution, based on Fedora the 6 Cores and MythTV 0.20-1. Like KnoppMyth, MythDora is planned in order to simplify the installation of MythTV on home theater a PC. With the exception of KnoppMyth, but, it is not a Live CD.
In addition to MythTV and its plugins, Mythdora includes: extra packages that amplify the functionalities of MythTV, driver for the more common hardware. Included in Mythdora there are also much video you play, emulatori, extra instruments and script. Ttutto this integral with the configuration begins them of the system and concurs with the customer to execute some tasks, like riavviare the machine, programming the backup of the data, directly through the interface of MythTV.

MythTV
MythTV is an application that transforms a computer with the necessary hardware in network streaming digital a video recorder, a system types them multimediale of home entertainment, or a Home Theater Personal Computer. MythTV is free software under licence GPL and can be considered like one of the best free alternatives and open source to Tivo and Windows Media Center.

Tvtime
Tvtime is a program that allows to a person to watch the television through own PC, being used a sintonizzatore TV, a receiver to satellitare or a card DVB-S. Tvtime does not make use of a detail set of widget, so as to not to favor an ambient detail desktop. The interface resembles display on-screen display of a TV much sophisticated one. 

XBMC
XBMC (XBox Media Center) is open source and free (a GPL) medium player and also a entertainment hub. It can reproduce an immense range much of multimediali formats, which pieces audio, weather video, presentations, forecasts and the functions can be ulteriormante developed use with it of a multitude of plugin of third parts. Originally developed as XBox Media Player for the first series of XBox progressively has been evolven till to become a complete interface customer and is currently in phase of porting in order making to turn natively it under Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows. On purpose of cioò you will remind a my guide for the installation of XBox on Ubuntu.

Xawtv
Xawtv is a program that allows to a person to watch the television and to record of the programs through a PC being used a sintonizzatore TV, a receiver to satellitare or a card DVB-S.  Xawtv works on operating systems of Unix type, and is released under licence GNU GPL. 

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