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Kalva is a lightweight video application for KDE. It uses MPlayer and MEncoder to do the real work. It schedules via atd (movies) and crond (serials). 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.

Kalva lets You

- watch tv from v4l(2) compatible tv cards or DVB cards
- do scheduled or immediate recording via MEncoder of...
- ... divx4/mp3 Avi from v4l(2) compatible tv cards
- ... mpeg2-stream from DVB cards
- ... divx4/mp3 Avi from DVB cards (on the fly convesion)
- manage scheduled recordings
- manage Your video collection with the build in file browser
- play videos from the collection with MPlayer
- call a configurable EPG programm with a toolbar button
- call a configurable video editing programm on the active directory in the video collection
- setup and manage various profiles with MPlayer / MEncoder options to get the best results for different purposes
- setup and manage Your channel list
- share Your profiles and channellists via www.kde-files.org

Kalva is using the fantastic console tool MEncoder from the MPlayer package to do the real work. 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). You can schedule a movie recording 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 reread all ready scheduled tasks for later changes (moviemanager, serialmanager). You can browse and manage your movie collection and watch selected files with MPlayer.