TV and Radio­

CableTV is a CableCrypt decoder for Linux. It has been tested with BT878 cards under kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.x, and provides full decryption of Wiener Telekabel Telekino (Austria), but reported to work with many stations over europe. It works yet only with P

KdeTV is a KDE application to watch TV on the desktop. Features of kdetv include three view modes, a channel scanner, the ability to import the channel files of three other TV programs, teletext and closed caption decoding, and an easy-to-use graphical us

XdTV is a software that allows you to watch TV. It interacts with AleVT for Teletext and Nxtvepg for NextView. It uses the video4linux API. It can use deinterlacing filters and record video files with the ffmpeg, xvid, and divx codecs.

Listen to the radio with QtRadio! It works with v4l and also with v4l2

GnomeTV is a TV and Teletext viewer for the GNOME environment that supports video4linux.

fftv is a TV viewer for use with TV cards and Video for Linux.

The 3dfx TV Out Tool tries to be the well-known 'TV Tool' for the 3dfx VooDoo3 cards. It might work on other cards based on the bt869 chip, since it uses the bt869 lm_sensors module.

TunaPie is a directory browser for internet radio and TV streams. At present, it uses the shoutcast server, but compatibility with other services is planned. Tunapie allows you to search for streams and then launch your audio player (xmms) or NSV viewer (

* support for V4L and V4L2 based radio card drivers * attended and unattended recording * database with station preset files, station search * lirc support * alarms, stations and volume may be assigned, types: start/stop play, start/stop recording * sleep

Gcbttv is a Perl script with a nice GUI that helps you to find the correct module options for your TV card - bttv. It use Perl-GTK, and it writes the correct options to /etc/modules.conf and .xawtv.

This is litte app for X under linux to listen to the radio.

Kalva is A Lightweight Videorecorder Application and written with a C(++). It provides a simple to use videorecorder using MEncoder to do the real work. You can schedule movies or serials. Kalva can import channellists from e.g. xawtv or xawtv4 and genera

tunerd is an FM radio tuner daemon and command line control program.

rdj is a gtk+ radio interface for bttv video devices with radio tuners. Scanning, station editing, using devices radio0-3 and setting a default station.

tvtime is a high quality television application for use with video capture cards on Linux systems. tvtime processes the input from a capture card and displays it on a computer monitor or projector.

Gnomeradio is another FM radio tuner writen in GTK+. It should work with every FM tuner card that is supported by video4linux. Remote controls are supported via (optional) lirc-support. Gnomeradio can also record radio as a Wave or MP3 file.

GQmpeg is a front end to various audio players, including mpg123, ogg123, and xmp. Also works with mpg321. It includes playlist support and is very configurable.

Gtuner is a gtk/gnome based radio card tuner that has support for numerous different radio cards as well as the kernel drivers.

Controls a Video4Linux-compatible radio card.

Radiok is a kde application that give a graphical interface for bttv card.