[kde-announce] Announcement: Kalva (formerly known as ktvapp) 0.8.0

Name: Kalva (formerly known as ktvapp)
Version: 0.8.0
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. 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 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).

Changelog:
 What's new in Version 0.8.0
---------------------------
So this finally is 0.8.0 
* reread movie manager after the movie recording
is started by atd 
* resize main window on restart 
* show sidebars on restart that where open on quit

* keep station selection after rereading settings
and after restart this one is important if you
schedule a recording via DCOP and want to choose a
different profile after kalva recieved the movie
parameters 

Some of the outstanding features that where
introduced by the release candidates of 0.8
shouldn't be hidden... 

* The mainwindow recieved a sidebar with...
+ the channellist
+ the movie manager (NEW) that
-> shows allready scheduled movies and
-> allows to change or delete the at entry
+ the serialmanager (NEW) that
-> shows allready scheduled serials and
-> allows to change or delete the crontab entry
* when using aumix the volumes of the audio device
for playing and of the igain when recording are
set to a configurable value from the
hardwareprofile
* bitrate configurable via the quality profile
+ maximum bitrate configurable via the hardware
profile
+ Testing and reduction of bitrate when resulting
filesize would extend 2 GB can be configured
+ if you prefer kalva can ask you if you want to
use the reduced bitrate
* bugfix: The extended lavc options where inserted
in the wrong part and so where of no use in prior
versions
* diverse bugfixes when using aumix
* diverse bugfixes for the scantv plugin
* fixed geometry problems of the main window
* Bugfix: On the player page the channel was cut
to three letters so that Kalva tuned the MPlayer
to a wrong station if it had a four letter channel
like f.i. SE10 
* Renamed "play" to "watch" as a lookahead to the
video collection that is planed for 0.9

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for older history look at the homepage


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