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Paulo Ferreira <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: xtv - simple and extensible tv viewer/de
System name: xtv
Type: GNU

Description:
xtv aims to be a simple and easy to extend program for capture of video through 
both the first (v4l) and second (v4l2) video for linux APIs. The main 
difference from other tv software is that we aim to implement cablecrypt 
descrambling (such as that in cabletv, but more generic).

What motivated us to start a new project was the lack of software to descramble 
video for linux in a generic way (cabletv relies on a particular chip, bt878, 
and refuses to function on boards with other hardware), while there is a large 
choice of windows software for this purpose. We believe we can help to close 
that gap.

We do not have much code now (we merely open the v4l device and display an X11 
window), but the few lines we have are on 
http://gape.ist.utl.pt/~paulo/xtv.tar.gz



Other Software Required:
This software expects to be linux specific (it relies on the v4l interface). 
Otherwise, it only requires the X11 libraries.

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