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[kde-announce] Kalva 0.7.0 released

From:  Andreas Silberstorff <ml-AT-andreas-silberstorff.de>
To:  kde-announce-AT-kde.org
Subject:  [kde-announce] Kalva 0.7.0 released
Date:  Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:19:21 +0200

<<< What's new in Version 0.7.0 >>>
You can store your hardware profile and share it via www.kde-files.org. By 
providing your hardware profile you can help others who are new to recording 
with MEncoder.

You can store your quality profile and share it via www.kde-files.org. This 
allows apart from other benefits to have more than one profile and per 
recording choose which MEncoder options will give the best results (f.i. if 
you want to record a 16/9 movie you need other options than for a 4/3 five 
minute toon for children). What was said about the hardware profile about 
sharing via www.kde-files.org applies even more on quality profiles. You can 
allready find some at www.kde-files.org

You can configure if the preview window shall start in fullscreen or not.
The play button now gives some valuable information on using the preview 
window which in fact is an external MPlayer.

Apart from these outstanding changes there have been a lot of improvements and 
bugfixes concerning tooltips and geometry flaws.

The scantv plugin was redesigned to make sure that a failing scantv does not 
freeze Kalva anymore.

The save dialog for the channellist was fixed to fill in the values of the 
active channellist and to make sure that the channellist is set in the 
preferences when it gets a new name.


<<< About Kalva >>>
Kalva is a Lightweight Video Application

ktvapp 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. 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 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 apps like xmltv browsers (f.i. KTvSchedule). If You 
want to use the DCOP interface You can push Kalva into KDE's systemtray 
(works just like with JuK or amaroK).

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).


<<< links >>>
Kalva Homepage
http://www.andreas-silberstorff.de/ktvapp

What's new in 0.7.0
http://www.andreas-silberstorff.de/ktvapp/#vlast

Download of released versions
http://www.andreas-silberstorff.de/ktvapp/#download

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