Freetuxtv – A WebTV player working on the Linux platform

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The goal of this project is to create a WebTV player, working on the Linux platform. It can be used by french people to watch ADSL TV on the PC with ISPs or by other people to watch WebTV and Web Radio in many languages. The GUI is developed in GTK2+ and is using the VLC engine to display the channels.
Features

* Play channel TV and radio:
o French ISP: Free, SFR, Orange, Alice, Bouygues...
o Web TV: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spain
o Web Radio: English, French, German
* Play in full screen mode and miniature mode.
* More than 365 logos of TV channels.
* Support for keyboard multimedia keys.
* Add custom groups of channels from M3U playlists.
* Time shifting.
* Recording live channels with ability to set duration.
* Ability to create favorite channels groups.
* Multi-language interface: English, French, German, Portugese

Install Freetuxtv in Ubuntu

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freetuxtv/freetuxtv

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install freetuxtv

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4 Responses

  1. Ben says:

    Not sure what to do here, my system uses Libvlc5 but:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    freetuxtv: Depends: libvlc2 (>= 1.0.0~rc1) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Broken packages

    $ uname -a
    Linux terra 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:05:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  2. McDope says:

    Got the same, most likely because my VLC is to new – i got it from some PPA…

  3. Peter says:

    I got the same. Any suggestions how to fix?

  4. eddy737 says:

    +1
    I got the same.

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