[Kde-announce-apps] Kalva 0.8.75

[Andreas Silberstorff]

Name: Kalva
Version: 0.8.75
Type: Video Application
Depend: KDE 3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://kalva.berlios.de
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23381

Description:
 Kalva is a Lightweight Video Application

Kalva is a simple to use and easy to setup
videorecorder for the K Desktop
Environment. It is using the console tool MEncoder
from the MPlayer package
to do the real work. Kalva's main goal is to be
quite simple to setup and easy to use. But apart
from that it provides quite some useful features.

You can schedule a movierecording by choosing the
date
from a calender (will be passed to at) and a
serial recording by choosing the
days of the week (feeds your crontab). You can
manage your scheduled 
recordings.

You can store the neccessary MEncoder Options in
hardware- and quality
profiles. You can easily share your profiles and
your channellist via New
Stuff (take a look at www.kde-files.org for
channellists, hardware profiles
and quality profiles).

Kalva can import channellists from e.g. xawtv or
xawtv4 and generate a knew
one using scantv. You can edit and store that
list. You might as well
download a channellist from www.kde-files.org
(KHotNewStuff).

Kalva has a DCOP interface. This is meant as a
convinient way to support
recording for external EPG apps like xmltv
browsers (f.i. KTvSchedule) that You can
optionally launch with a (configurable) toolbar
button. If You
want to use the DCOP interface You can push Kalva
into KDE's systemtray
(works just like with JuK or amaroK).

You can manage Your videocollection with the build
in file browser and Play the selected video files
with MPlayer or call a (configurable) video editor
on the active directory.


If you want to follow the active developement
process, the bleeding edge of
Kalva's sources can be found in kde-svn
(trunc/playground/multimedia/kalva).

Changelog:
 binaries v0.8.75 (stable)
-------------------------
SUSE 10.0 i586 with kde 3.5.2 from apt (Use with
care! If You do not have a decent KDE from apt I
have to advice You to wait for the offical apt RPM
from suser-scorot to upgrade)

* Fri Mar 31 2006 - ml at andreas-silberstorff.de
- the profiles and the channellist are
configurable from the
  main window, no need anymore to open prefs
dialog for each
  recording session if You want to use a special
profileset
- bbugfix: no need for a channel to be set when
recording
  from composite (i.e. input = 1)
- fixed a bug in the movie manager when the
daytime contains
  the searched string (was a too aggressive filter
regex)
- first code cleanups,
  -> improved filehandling,
  -> fixed some syntax issues (see
    
http://www.icefox.net/kde/tests/index.html#playground/multimedia/kalva)


binaries v0.8.50 (stable)
--------------------------
SUSE 10.0 i586
Debian package for SID (thanks to Harry Auschner)
Fedora core 4 i386 (thanks to Martin Gansser)

Also known to distribute Kalva:
-------------------------------
Kalva-stable via klik
SuSE 9.2-10.0 i386 and IA64 via apt (suser-scorot)
Mandriva RPMs (cooker)
Slackware
PLD
Gentoo

What's new in Version 0.8.50
-----------------------------
Since 0.8.49 kalva brings the Videocollection and
DVB-support.
After three testing releases fixing minor bugs I
dare to call this one a stable release :-)

Up to  0.8.49c kalva did only play avi files. With
0.8.50 You can now also play mpeg-videos from the
collection.

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for older history look at the homepage