DVB Daemon

GNOME DVB Daemon is a daemon written in Vala based on GStreamer to setup your DVB devices, record and watch TV shows and browse EPG. It can be controlled by any application via its D-Bus interface.

News

• August 8, 2014: GNOME DVB Daemon 0.2.90 released

• October 3, 2012: GNOME DVB Daemon 0.2.10 released

• May 20, 2012: GNOME DVB Daemon 0.2.9 released

• March 19, 2012: GNOME DVB Daemon 0.2.8 released

Features

• Supports DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and DVB-T devices (DVBv5 API)
• UI to scan for channels with initial tuning data
• Recording with manually provided start time and duration
• Automatically distribute overlapping recordings between adapters of same group
• Record multiple shows on same transport stream at the same time with a single adapter
• Brute force scan for DVB-T
• Browse EPG data
• Schedule recording from EPG
• Watch live TV using Totem
• Hot-plugging support of devices

• UPnP/DLNA support by Rygel

Requirements

• Daemon:

  • GStreamer >= 1.4.0

  • gst-plugins-good >= 1.4.0

  • gst-plugins-bad >= 1.4.0

  • glib >= 2.32.0

  • libgee >= 0.8.0

  • sqlite >= 3.4

  • gst-rtsp-server 1.4.0 (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-rtsp-server/)

  • gudev
• UI:

  • Python >= 3.2

  • pygobject >= 3.2.1

  • gobject-introspection >= 0.10.8

Download

Release tarballs are available at http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-dvb-daemon/

Packages for the following distributions are available:

• Arch Linux

• Debian

• Fedora

• openSUSE

• Ubuntu (PPA)

Older releases are listed here.

User Guide

Check out the user guide describing the essential steps to setup your DVB cards and schedule recordings.

Contact

If you have question or problems please subscribe to dvb-daemon-list.

Reporting Bugs

Bugs can be reported at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-dvb-daemon/issues

About

The project was started during Google Summer of Code 2008 by Sebastian Pölsterl.

Development

Development takes place in a Git repository. To checkout the latest version run the following command:

git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-dvb-daemon

In addition to the requirements above you need:

• Vala 0.25.1 or later

Python library

Communication with DVB daemon is possible through its D-Bus interfaces. DVB daemon already ships a D-Bus wrapper for Python (gnomedvb module) and some basic GTK+ widgets (gnomedvb.widgets module). You can browse the gnomedvb module if you run python and enter the following commands:

>>> import gnomedvb
>>> help(gnomedvb)

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