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Subject:    [kde-announce] Kalva 0.8.50
From:       Andreas Silberstorff <ml () andreas-silberstorff ! de>
Date:       2005-12-09 22:03:55
Message-ID: cecd68d444fcc673924a1138015380bd () www ! kde-look ! org
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Name: Kalva
Version: 0.8.50
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 v0.8.50 (testing)
--------------------------
SuSE 10.0 i586 (*new*)

binaries v0.8.49c (testing)
--------------------------
SuSE 10.0 i586
Debian package for SID (thanks to Harry Auschner)
Fedora core 4 i386 (thanks to Martin Gansser) (***
update ***)

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.


What's new in Version 0.8.49c
-----------------------------
- minor bugfix for DVB: in 0.8.49b DVB to DivX4
was only provided for immediate recordings, not
for scheduled recordings
- some bugfixes from bugzilla concerning the
handbook (0.8.49b)
- option to choose if Kalva shall convert the MPG2
stream on the fly into DivX4 / mp3 Avi-file
(0.8.49a)
 + Introduction of the videocollection (0.8.49)
-> browse and manage your videocollection with the
build in file browser
-> play choosen files via the play button in the
file browser's toolbar
-> configure the video editor of your choice and
call it on the choosen 
directory via the edit-buttom in the file
browser's toolbar Provides a 
+ shortcut to the EPG of your choice (0.8.49)
-> define an EPG programm in the prefs and
activate the toolbar action. 
+ Introduction of the first experimental
DVB-Support (0.8.49)
    Please beware: The author does not owe a
DVB-card. So this is untested.
    It should work but maybe not out of the box.
You will have to create a
    channellist for MPlayer/MEncoder by yourself
(if you understand german
    this site might help:
http://johannes-bauer.com/dvbt/)
-> load the hardwareprofile via the download
button in the prefs
-> use a channellist to set the station name

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for older history look at the homepage


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