TV and radio apps

[Florin Andrei]

Probably too late to include them in the upcoming release, but perhaps
nice to consider for other future releases:

Currently, the functions of radio and TV/analog video player are covered
by xawtv. There are quite a few shortcomings of this package. Perhaps
better replacements would be:

- tvtime http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
Has filtering abilities. Can deinterlace the image, hence the image
quality is so much higher (no more interlacing artifacts). Has a nicer
and more clever interface. Even searching for new channels is far easier
and it's a full-GUI task (well, not exactly a classic GUI, but
everything happens right on the display, like many TVs and standalone
DVD players do). Generally, a lot more flexible, powerful and feature
rich.
Main quality: the image is far better than with xawtv.
Main drawback: can't find any.

- gqradio http://gqmpeg.sourceforge.net/radio.html
Has an interface that makes sense. Can do autoseek. You can label the
stations. Everything is GUI-able. On the eye-candy side, it has skins.
Main quality: at least has a GUI. :-)
Main drawback: it's a GUI app. :-)

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

[Peter Backlund]

>  - gqradio http://gqmpeg.sourceforge.net/radio.html
>  Has an interface that makes sense. Can do autoseek. You can label the
>  stations. Everything is GUI-able. On the eye-candy side, it has skins. 
Heh...skinned multimedia applications and eye-candy...that's usually not
a good combination. In my experience, most skin looks like this: 

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/images/skin-krystal-shot01.jpg

(Disclaimer: I haven't seen any gqmpeg skins, so they might not be as
bad.) 

Overall, this could probably go into Fedora Extras pretty much right
away. I noticed there are already (tvview) rpms for RHL 7.3/8/9, built
by Dag Wieers.

/Peter

Fedora Extras???

[John Ellson]

Peter Backlund wrote:

>  Overall, this could probably go into Fedora Extras pretty much right
>
>  away. ... 

Where can we find these "Fedora Extras" ?

And where are the instructions on how we might contribute to them?

John

Fedora Extras???

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:36, John Ellson wrote:
>  Peter Backlund wrote:
>  
>  > Overall, this could probably go into Fedora Extras pretty much right 
>  > away. ...
>  
>  
>  Where can we find these "Fedora Extras" ?
>  
>  And where are the instructions on how we might contribute to them?
>   
The official "Fedora Extras" has not been set up yet.
But in the interim, visit http://www.fedora.us/ to use these packages. 
You can follow the QA procedure outlined there to contribute if you
wish.

--Jeremy

[Florin Andrei]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:28, Florin Andrei wrote:

>  - tvtime http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ 
Actually, Joe Barr has an article on NewsForge in which he describes the
software far better than i could:

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/0120255

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/