Related applications

TV Applications which interact with nxtvepg

The following TV applications support the EPG interaction features, such as switching channels from inside nxtvepg or programme title on-screen display.

• Xawtv
• Xawdecode
• Zapping (since May 2004)
• tvtime (version 0.9.13 or later)
• K!TV

Please see the developer's FAQ for a description how to add nxtvepg support to TV applications.

TV Applications whose channel table nxtvepg can load

The following TV applications do not support nxtvepg, however nxtvepg can load at least their channel table and (Windows only) TV card configuration to speed up initial configuration.

• DScaler 4
• Legacy apps MultiDec, MoreTV and FreeTV

Note nxtvepg can also load TV channel tables of apps in the previous category.

Recording and scheduling applications which can be programmed by nxtvepg

The following recording applications can accept parameters for timers from nxtvepg. Note that generally all applications which accept parameters on the command line fall into this category (nxtvepg can start external applications for the context menu, reminder messages and TV EPG on-screen-display)

• ZoomTV plugin for K!TV
• VideoTimer: Connects TV capture programs and EPGs (Windows, Shareware)
• xalarm: Alarm clock for X11
• plan: Calendar and Day Planner
• Videorecorder: Recording scheduler (Linux)

Applications which can import Nextview EPG data

The following EPG applications can import Nextview EPG data which has been acquired by and exported from nxtvepg. Generally all applications which support the XMLTV file format fall into this category.

• ExploreEPG
• ical stylesheet
• nxtvepg2web: Webfrontend for nxtvepg (requires web server with PHP and MySQL database
• MythTV: PVR project
• Avicaps Electronic Program Guide Browser

For more applications see the XMLTV homepage

Others

The following applications and web sites are related to nxtvepg or Nextview EPG in general.

• alevt: teletext/videotext decoder and browser
• zapping: framework in which libzvbi is developed