Kaffeine

Kaffeine is a very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes Xine as its backend. It has a simple but intuitive interface (example screenshot) and is easy to setup. Amongst its list of supported formats are CDDA, VCD, DVD, .... and, since versions >0.5, it also provides full DVB support:

• TV and Radio
• Time Shifting
• Recording -- including unattended recording
• Network streaming (transmission and reception)
• EPG, EPG-driven recording timers, OSD EPG now and next.
• AC3
• DVB subtitles
• HDTV (mpeg2). Kaffeine will display HDTV delivered over DVB-S (e.g. BBC HD on Astra 2 at 28.8 degrees East). To use multithreaded ffmpeg decoding set the xine option video.processing.ffmpeg_thread_count equal to the number of CPUs, ie. 2 for a Dual-core or 4 for a Quad-core (in the GUI it is in Settings/Xine engine config/Video/Advanced). BBC HD -- working with occasional crashes. LUXE HD -- audio only, but recorded files are playable with mplayer.
• Remote control
• Handles multiple devices of any type (DVB-{C,S,T} and ATSC¹ ).... and even if you have only one DVB device, Kaffeine can simultaneously play and record different channels within a same transponder).
• Handles mutiple frontends on a single device (for example a multi-standard card supporting say DVB-S and DVB-T).
• Channel scanning on multiple devices/frontends, and multiple satellites.
• Channel favourites lists.
• DiSEqC 1.x switches, DiSEqC 1.2 rotors and USALS type goto longitude feature.
• Supports both Low and High level CI.

Note 1: Scanning with ATSC hardware is supported since version 0.8.7. For older versions, to configure tuning support for ATSC devices, refer to the directions contained in this thread.

Links

• Kaffeine Homepage
• atsc-converter sources