Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has user-friendly interface, so that even first time users can start immediately playing their movies: from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file.
- Digital TV and Radio via Digital TV
- Time Shifting
- Recording -- including unattended recording
- EPG, EPG-driven recording timers, OSD EPG now and next
- AC3
- DVB subtitles
- HDTV
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Multi standards are supported:
Cable standards: DVB-C, DVB-C2
Terrestrial standards: ATSC, ISDB-T, DVB-T, DVB-T2
Satellital Standards: DVB-S, DVB-S2
- Kaffeine can simultaneously play and record different channels within the same transponder
- Nicely handles mutiple frontends on a single device (for example a multi-standard card supporting DVB-C and DVB-T/T2 on the same frontend)
- Channel scanning on multiple devices/frontends, and multiple satellites
- Channel favourites lists
- DiSEqC 1.x switches, DiSEqC 1.2 rotors and USALS
- Supports both Low and High level CI
- KDE application style, rather than set top box (like MythTV or VDR)
Multimedia and Television Support on Linux
The LinuxTV community develops and maintains the Linux Kernel Media Subsystems and several userspace libraries and applications.
The Linux Kernel Media Subsystems provide support for devices like webcams, streaming capture and output, analog TV, digital TV, AM/FM radio, Sofware Digital Radio (SDR), remote controllers and encoders/decoders for compressed video formats. It offers native support for a large number of drivers for commonly available PCI cards and USB devices, but the subsystems are also targeted towards Linux based set-top-boxes and embedded devices like mobile phones.
More information on www.linuxtv.org