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tvtime(1)							     tvtime(1)

NAME
       tvtime - a high quality television application

SYNOPSIS
       tvtime [ OPTION ] ...

DESCRIPTION
       tvtime is a high quality television application for use with video cap‐
       ture cards.  tvtime processes the input from a capture  card  and  dis‐
       plays it on a computer monitor or projector.

       tvtime supports:

       ·   Deinterlaced	 output	 at  full  interlaced rate of 59.94 frames per
	   second for NTSC source, or 50 frames per second  for	 PAL  sources.
	   This gives smoothness of motion and high visual quality.

       ·   Multiple  deinterlacing algorithms for finding the optimal mode for
	   the video content and available processor speed.

       ·   16:9 aspect ratio mode for the highest  available  resolution  when
	   processing  input  from an external DVD player or digital satellite
	   receiver.

       ·   A super-slick on-screen-display for the complete television experi‐
	   ence, with a featureful menu system.

USAGE
       Here  are  the  core  set  of  key bindings you want to learn for using
       tvtime:

	      Escape or q	  Quit

	      F1 or tab		  Show menu

	      up/down		  Change channels

	      0-9 and Enter	  Change channels

	      Backspace		  Jump to previous channel

	      i			  Change input

	      m			  Mute

	      +/- or left/right	  Volume control

	      f			  Fullscreen

	      s			  Take a screenshot

	      Enter		  Display info

	      d			  Display debug statistics

       Here are some advanced keys.  These features are all  configurable  via
       the  menu,  but	some  of  these	 may be useful if you use the features
       often:

	      e	     Toggle audio mode (stereo/mono/SAP)

	      v	     Toggle always-on-top with supporting window managers

	      F5/F6/F7
		     Picture settings

	      Space  Restore default picture settings

	      /	     Resize the window to match the content inside  it	(after
		     applying a matte or switching to 16:9 mode)

	      c	     Toggle closed caption decoding (NTSC only)

OPTIONS
       -a, --widescreen
	      This option starts tvtime in 16:9 aspect ratio mode.

       -A, --nowidescreen
	      This option starts tvtime in 4:3 aspect ratio mode.

       -h, --help
	      Show usage information.

       -k, --slave
	      Disables	keyboard  input	 in tvtime for slave mode.  Slave mode
	      was added for integration with PVR applications like  freevo  or
	      mythtv, so that freevo can handle keyboard input while tvtime is
	      running.	In slave mode, keystrokes are  ignored	but  they  are
	      printed  to standard output, and commands are read from standard
	      input in the same syntax as tvtime-command.

       -m, --fullscreen
	      Start tvtime in fullscreen mode.

       -M, --window
	      Start tvtime in windowed mode.

       -s, --showdrops
	      Print frame skip information (for debugging).

       -S, --saveoptions
	      Save command line options to the config file.   This  will  save
	      the  V4L	device,	 VBI  device,  input  number, norm, frequency,
	      startup fullscreen setting, aspect ratio, verbose mode, and out‐
	      put window height.

       -v, --verbose
	      The verbose setting indicates that we should print full informa‐
	      tional and warning messages  to  standard	 error	while  running
	      tvtime.	Otherwise, only critical errors will be printed to the
	      output.

       -F, --configfile=FILE
	      Additional config file to load settings from.

       -g, --geometry=GEOMETRY
	      Sets the geometry of the window, for example, 400x300 for a win‐
	      dow  400	pixels	wide  and 300 pixels tall.  A width value of 0
	      signifies that the appropriate width for the given  height  will
	      be  used.	  For  4:3  content  on	 a  square pixel display, this
	      defaults to a 768×576 window.

       -I, --inputwidth=SAMPLING
	      V4L input scanline sampling (defaults to	720.   This  sets  how
	      many  pixels  per	 scanline to request from the capture card.  A
	      higher setting gives better quality, while a lower setting means
	      we  do  less work, and so tvtime will run faster.	 If you have a
	      slower CPU (like, less than  500Mhz  or  so),  maybe  values  of
	      480 or 400 might suit you best.  For best quality, choose a high
	      value like 720 or 768.  Many capture cards cannot sample	higher
	      than 768 pixels per scanline.

       -d, --device=NAME
	      video4linux device to use (defaults to /dev/video0).

       -b, --vbidevice=DEVICE
	      VBI device to use (defaults to /dev/vbi0).

       -i, --input=INPUTNUM
	      video4linux input number (defaults to 0).	 Cards commonly have a
	      bunch of sources, for example, on my WinTV card, source 0 is  my
	      tuner and source 1 is the composite input.

       -c, --channel=CHANNEL
	      On  startup,  tvtime will tune to the given channel.  Otherwise,
	      the channels from the config file will be used.

       -n, --norm=NORM
	      The mode to set the tuner to (defaults to	 NTSC).	  Valid	 modes
	      are:

	      ·	  NTSC
	      ·	  PAL
	      ·	  SECAM
	      ·	  PAL-NC
	      ·	  PAL-M
	      ·	  PAL-N
	      ·	  NTSC-JP

       -f, --frequencies=NAME
	      The  channels  you  are  receiving  with	the tuner (defaults to
	      us-cable).  Valid values are:

	      ·	  us-cable
	      ·	  us-broadcast
	      ·	  japan-cable
	      ·	  japan-broadcast
	      ·	  europe
	      ·	  australia
	      ·	  australia-optus
	      ·	  newzealand
	      ·	  france
	      ·	  russia
	      ·	  custom (first run 'tvtime-scanner')

       -t, --xmltv=FILE
	      Reads XMLTV listings from the given file to display on the  OSD.
	      Channels are looked up based on their name, and tvtime will dis‐
	      play the show title, sub-title and show description on the OSD.

       -l, --xmltvlanguage=LANG
	      Use XMLTV data in given language, if available.	Languages  are
	      represented by their two-letter language code (for example, "de"
	      for German).  The default language used in the file will be used
	      if this is unset or set to "none"

       -X, --display=DISPLAY
	      Uses the given X display to connect to.

       -x, --mixer=DEVICE[:CH]
	      The  mixer device and channel for the volume controls. (defaults
	      to /dev/mixer:line).  Valid channels are:

	      ·	  vol
	      ·	  bass
	      ·	  treble
	      ·	  synth
	      ·	  pcm
	      ·	  speaker
	      ·	  line
	      ·	  mic
	      ·	  cd
	      ·	  mix
	      ·	  pcm2
	      ·	  rec
	      ·	  igain
	      ·	  ogain
	      ·	  line1
	      ·	  line2
	      ·	  line3
	      ·	  dig1
	      ·	  dig2
	      ·	  dig3
	      ·	  phin
	      ·	  phout
	      ·	  video
	      ·	  radio
	      ·	  monitor

FILES
       /tvtime/tvtime.xml
       $HOME/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
       $HOME/.tvtime/stationlist.xml
       /var/run/tvtime/TV-*/tvtimefifo

AUTHORS
       Billy Biggs, Doug Bell, Alexander S. Belov, Achim Schneider,  David  I.
       Lehn,  Paul  Jara,  Robert  Högberg, Craig Dooley, Bart Dorsey, Nicolas
       Boos, Simon Law, Mark Trolley, Joachim Koenig, Stewart Allen, Justin A,
       Brian Goines, Krister Lagerstrom.

SEE ALSO
       tvtime-command(1),	 tvtime-configure(1),	    tvtime-scanner(1),
       tvtime.xml(5), stationlist.xml(5).

tvtime 1.0RC1			  April 2005			     tvtime(1)
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