kaffeine
kaffeine
Last Update: 17/03/11
kaffeine is a Media Player originally written in qt3 (nowadays there is a qt4 port available but i still prefer the qt3 version) based on the xine engine. It works with dvb-s/s2/c/t devices and also supports Common Interfaces for CAM's and official Subscription cards.
Latest available Version of the qt3 branch is 0.8.8, which has some great highlights like DVB-S2 support (via s2api), some DiseqC fixes and an adjustable live-ring-buffer.
Source Package:
kaffeine-0.8.8-src.tar.gz
Size: 3.7 MB MD5: a908eabd48381a045a6bac3262473a70
Binary Package for ubuntu (32 bit)
kaffeine_0.8.8-0ubuntu1~mtron2_i386.deb
Size: 3.2 MB MD5: 527a397b225dac805e505e6eaa259b38
Notes:
- Kaffeine 0.8.8 ChangeLog
- this binary kaffeine is the "unrestricted" build with lame mp3 encoding Support (this build was usually distributed via the medibuntu repository, but it seems kaffeine got dropped from there.)
- the xine-engine for Kaffeine is included in the main package, if you want additional gstreamer support, install the kaffeine-gstreamer package
- DVB-S2 (s2api) support should work out of the box!
- If you own a recent nvida VGA and want to use hardware acceleration for h.264, get the latest nvidia beta-driver from the x-swat ppa (at time of writing this the latest available one is 270.26) and a HD capeable xine build (i use the version distributed in the yavdr-ppa). Note that the binary kaffeine package above was NOT build with the "--without-xcb" configure switch. So you need to rebuild the source package to use vdpau hardware acceleration.
Channellists:
copy the channels.dvb file [and the icons folder] to ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine. You can edit your channels.dvb file in a text editor.
astra_hb.dvb.zip (19.2°E - 13°E) Old!
PayTV & FTA with logos and Favorites - date: 03/08
europe.dvb.zip (5°E - 13°E - 19.2°E - 23.5°E - 28,2°E - 28,5°E - 1°W - 8°W - 30°W) Old! big thx to spoke1 who scanned all this birds - date: 11/07
Kaffeine Plugins
kaffeine-sc
kaffeine-sc-plugin is a plugin that enables kaffeine 0.8.6+ to connect to a cardserver (currently supported are newcs, gbox & cccam) . You will need a smartmouse and a cardserver with an official subscription card to do anything useful with this plugin. Note that kaffeine should support ci slots (if the driver supports it) & cam's out-of-the-box since kaffeine version 0.8.7
http://dvbn.happysat.org/viewtopic.php?t=37293
kaffeine-sc-plugin-0.4.0 Size: 443 KB
Changelog: added * wildcard as the ident in cccam-share-filter
added new tab on SC window -> ECM Info
kaffeine-PremiereEPG
Kaffeine Premiere EPG, written by 'guality', is a plugin for kaffeine 0.8.6+ that grabs the EPG from the German provider Premiere on their PPV "Direkt" Channels & the Sports Feeds (Astra 19.2°E - Prov. ID: 0501). The Feeds must be present in the channel list (name doesn't matter). Kaffeine calls them something like "TSID:xxx-SID:xxx" after a initial scan.
kaffeine-premiere-epg-plugin-0.0.1.zip
Size: 625,3 KB
Download the latest Version and install the plugin with "./configure && make && sudo make install" in the uncompressed root dir of the sources. If you intend to use it for German dvb-c, see here
Kaffeine helpers
TV - Browser CapturePlugin
Schedule recordings for kaffeine from within tv-browser. You'll need sun's java (for TV-Browser) and python-dcop.
TV-Browser Capture Settings: use the sript kaffeine-tvbrowser-wrapper
TV- Browser Recording parameters: {start_year} {start_month} {start_day} {start_hour} {start_minute} {length_minutes} {isset(channel_name_external_quiet,channel_name)} {title}
HOWTO [de]: http://wiki.tvbrowser.org/index.php/CapturePlugin_-_Kaffeine
W - Scan
w_scan is a channel scanner for DVB-s(2)/t/c which exports directly to kaffeine's channels.dvb. This scanner doesn't require initial tuning data (so no conffiles! )
HOWTO [en]: http://edafe.org/vdr/wscan.html
http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/w_scan/index2.html
w_scan-20090528.tar.bz2
Size: 405,8 KB
To scan for all Channels on e.g. 23,5°E and export it directly to kaffeine's channels.dvb use:
don't forget to make a backup of your existing channels.dvb first ;)
./w_scan -fs -sS23E5 -k >> ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/channels.dvb
vdr2kaffeine
vdr2kaffeine is a small Linux console tool to convert vdr's channels.conf to kaffeine channel list format.
http://free.pages.at/cleditor/vdr2kaffeine.htm
vdr2kaffeine-0.0.2.tar.gz
Size: 186,5 KB
mtt - Teletext Browser for X
mtt is a teletext browser for the Desktop that uses the gtk+ toolkit, written by the xawtv team.
xawtv 4.x snapshots already have dvb support. This binary Packages were build on ubuntu and DVB Teletext needs a separate tuning app (like kaffeine, me-tv ect.) to work. Source of the Package is here .
mtt_4.0pre-0ubuntu1~mtron1_i386.deb README
Size: 315 KB MD5: 7c47b0fdef3ce9e68fe4ad244ad535b2
mtt_4.0pre-1_amd64.deb [Thanks to Jordi Sayol] Size: 322 KB MD5: 19f88b22cf61d08e1ca3d11d4ff8ba67