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Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

There is a new stable binary release (1.3.1) available on SourceForge.net's download page. It includes a number of important changes from the last stable release (1.3.0). The binary release now includes all external libraries (e.g. SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer). The current version is useful for watching/recording TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MP3/OGG, viewing images.

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

The (hopefully) final release candidate before the next stable (1.3.1)
release is now available on Sourceforge's download page (1.3.1-rc3).

It includes a number of important changes from the last stable release
(1.3.0). The binary release now includes all external libraries (e.g. SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer).... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

The new release has a lot of changes, including a new TV guide, better looking default skin, improved skin handling, added DVD audio/subtitle selection, preliminary DXR3 support, image slide shows, plus many bugfixes. There are also separate runtime and apps packages that make it real easy to start using Freevo, no external libraries are needed.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

This is the third release of the Freevo runtime. It is intended to provide a complete binary environment for running Freevo without installing any other software. It provides a Python interpreter with libs, PyGame, SDL, Freetype2, etc.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

The new release has a lot of changes, including better configure support, improved CD/DVD handling, improved skins, preliminary Mame support plus many bugfixes. There are also separate runtime and apps packages that make it real easy to start using Freevo, no external libraries are needed.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

This is the second release of the Freevo runtime. It is intended to provide a complete binary environment for running Freevo without installing any other software. It provides a Python interpreter with libs, PyGame, SDL, Freetype2, etc.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

The new release has a lot of changes, including full support for X11 and all framebuffer devices (not just Matrox G400), an image viewer, XML skins, TV viewing on all platform through MPlayer. There is also separate runtime and apps packages that make it real easy to start using Freevo, no external libraries are needed.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

This is the first release of the Freevo apps package. It contains the external applications that are needed to run Freevo. At the moment only MPlayer is included. You do not have to download this package, you can build MPlayer yourself, but it helps to get you started quickly if you have not done that before.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer and NVRec to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.

This is the first release of the Freevo runtime. It is intended to provide a complete binary environment for running Freevo without installing any other software. It provides a Python interpreter with libs, PyGame, SDL, Freetype2, etc.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone (TV+Remote) multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/DVR. It uses MPlayer, mpg123 and NVRec to play audio and video.

The new release has a lot of changes, including XMLTV support, SDL display, much nicer skin, support for album cover pics, and much more.

The current version is useful for watching TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MPs and recording TV.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone (TV+Remote) multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/DVR. It uses MPlayer, mpg123 and NVRec to play audio and video.

The new release has an important bugfix for a memory leak in the OSD module. It also has an improved MP3 progress bar.

The current version is useful for watching TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MPs and recording TV.... read more

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone (TV+Remote) multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/DVR. It uses MPlayer, mpg123 and NVRec to play audio and video.

The new release has much nicer graphics, including Freetype2 font support.

The current version is useful for watching TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MPs and recording TV.

Please try it out and let me know how it works!

Changed the layout (based on Gerd Knorr's bytesex.org).

Added a temporary logo, send in yours if you come up with something better!

The new release is easier to install, has better configuration files, logging and can read MPlayer options on a per-file basis.

The current version is useful for watching TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MPs and recording TV.

Please try it out and let me know how it works!

The new release contains a bugfix for a problem when watching TV.

The current version is useful for watching TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MPs and recording TV.

Please try it out and let me know how it works!