GnomeTV 0.3 review

Gnometv is a television and teletext viewer application for the GNOME environment

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Szabolcs Sel?f

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Gnometv is a television and teletext viewer application for the GNOME environment. It can be used with video digitial utilities, tuner cards which provides /dev/video like device for television and /dev/vbi device for the teletext part.

Gnometv supports PAL, SECAM, NTSC television standards (depending on your tv-card), and WST (World Standard Teletext) teletext standard (depending only on gnometv if you have /dev/vbi).

First download the tar.bz2 or the rpm file from the official GnomeTV site gnometv.sourceforge.net. If you downloaded the RPM file you should type rpm -i gnometv-0.2-1mdk.rpm to install the package. It is made for Mandrake 6.1. If you downloaded the tarball file you should untar the package with bunzip2 -c gnometv-0.2.tar.bz2|tar xfv - then run ./configure --prefix=`gnome-config --prefix` --sysconfdir=`gnome-config --sysconfdir` and make, make install.

To use GnomeTV you can start it from a terminal window by typing gnometv, or you can add the GnomeTV applet to the panel by right clicking on the panel and selecting Add applet -> Multimedia -> GnomeTV.

What's New in This Release:
gnometv: add LIRC support