TV-Browser – Online Digital TV Guide in Ubuntu
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TV-Browser supports plugins to provide enhanced features and allows change look and feel of the software by providing various skins and icons. These can be and mostly are user contributed.
Requirement
Java Runtime Enviroment (JRE) 5.0 or Higher
Download TV-Browser
You need to download TV-Browser .deb package from here
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tvbrowser/tvbrowser_2.7.3-1_all.deb
Install .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i tvbrowser_2.7.3-1_all.deb
This will complete the installation.
Using TV-Browser
You can Open TV-Browser from Applications--->Sound & Video--->TV-Browser
Starting up TV-Browser in progress
When you launch TV-Browser for the first time, it will take you through a quick wizard to configure the TV-Guide for you. If you want to skip the wizard simply click “cancel” on the welcome screen of the wizard to launch the application, else click next.
Configure your Network settings. Here if you use proxy, select the proxy option and enter the details of the Proxy server & the port details, user authentication (if any) and click Next.
This should then try to go onto internet and check connectivity and provide you with the results. Click Next.
Getting all the channels information in progress
Now you can select your country and you can see the list of channels
Choose the channel(s) and click the green arrow select the channels and click Next.
Confiruge channel option screen
Select your choice here click next
TV-Browser configuration completed
Your selected channels including programs list as follows
For extensive settings for your TV-Browser, click the TV-Browser menu and select settings.
This includes install and configure plugins, change theme and icons. Plugins can however be managed from the Plugins menu.
TV-Browser Version Details
Remove TV-Browser
Use the following command to remove
sudo dpkg -r tvbrowser
I’ve downloaded the program but when I run through terminal, I get an error message:
dpkg: error processing tvbrowser_2.7.3-1_all.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
tvbrowser_2.7.3-1_all.deb
Any clue what I’m doing wrong??
BTW – I’m using Hardy
Installed fine but doesnt work in my country
now how do i uninstall it ?
Try the Add/Remove?
Use the following command to remove
sudo dpkg -r tvbrowser
Was unable to install it – resulted in this error
dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe in copy)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing tvbrowser_2.7.3-1_all.deb (–install):
short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `usr/share/tvbrowser/plugins/CalendarExportPlugin.jar’)
Errors were encountered while processing:
tvbrowser_2.7.3-1_all.deb
Very cool!!!
Anyone know of a Dutch EPG solution?
To remove try:
sudo dpkg -r tvbrowser
Thanks Fr33d0m.
Uninstalled the application.
anyone know of a real way to watch internet tv with this. Or know of a program that will let u watch tv from the channels it listed?
@chi
Have you tried Miro? I watch CNN through Miro but it’s not streaming. It downloads videos – at least legally.
Nice app, but it appears to be pretty useless in the US. I presume this is because of the idiotic copyright issues we have here.
Nice app. Why Ubuntu though. I use Linux not ubuntu. Why not some instructions on how to install it in linux.
” joe says:
Nice app. Why Ubuntu though. I use Linux not ubuntu. Why not some instructions on how to install it in linux.”
^^^WTF?!!!!
no seriously joe WTF?!!!!!!!!
chi says:
July 4, 2009 at 3:25 pm
anyone know of a real way to watch internet tv with this. Or know of a program that will let u watch tv from the channels it listed?
http://www.tvcatchup.com – only available in UK. You can stream any of the Freeview channels.
hey, this package tries to install java as a dependency, but I already have java installed (Hardy). I don’t want this package to install its own java package and screw up my system. does anyone know how to install this package but without java (I already have java)???
lol joe
BTW, ya’ll might want to just visit:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/files/
and grab the latest version for your platform.
This post and version is from 2009