TVtools – steam online tv for free
I needed a simple, free, graphical Linux web tv and radio streaming program. In need of a better thing, I wrote TVtools, which uses mplayer and VideoLan VLC. Read on for more!
Download
| v1b | Beta 1 – 23 Sep 2007 (New feature: With the click of a button, an updated version of channellist.txt will be downloaded) |
| v0.4 | Pre-alpha v0.4 – 22 Sep 2007 (Linux, layout redesign, channellist.txt updated with many new channels) |
| v0.3 | Pre-alpha v0.3 – 20 Feb 2007 (Linux, mplayer radio bugfixes) |
| v0.2 | Pre-alpha v0.2 – 19 Feb 2007 (Linux, buggy — no recording functionality. Added channellist.txt. Added VLC support) |
| v0.1 | Pre-alpha v0.1 – 15 Feb 2007 (Linux — working, limited number of channels) |
Installation
- Download and unpack TVtools to a folder of your choosing
- Make it executable eg. by ~ chmod u+x TVtoolsXX.py
- run it ~./TVtoolsXX.py
- Requirements: TVtools requires a working installation of python, python-tk, mplayer and/or vlc. In Ubuntu, you can install these by issuing the command
apt-get install python python-tk mplayer vlc
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
TVtools has no direct association with the DR, TV2 or any other corporation and we do not claim to represent their data, code or any of their products in any way. Our own software and documentation is still experimental work. We cannot be held responsible for any errors in our code or documentation. Please regard any downloads as ‘as is’ with no warranty. This information is not for sale – its free. You must observe any copyright laws applicable to your country if you do decide to use our software. This receiver software is not a ‘hack’ or ‘crack’ but purely an educational project and is intended for that purpose only.
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