Linux.com: kWinTV – Can It Beat XawTV?

“kWinTV (previously xwintv) is an X application built on qt
that is used to display output from TV tuner cards (video4linux
supported). I had previously only used XawTV and in spite of
my satisfaction with it, I wanted to try other similar
applications.”

“I got kwintv from the Debian apt index (Debian’s package
management system) and had it installed without a glitch. Since my
video4linux modules were all set up, kWinTV immideately displayed
the TV signal when starting up. The first thing that struck me when
it started up was the very clean and well done interface that is
evidence of the feature-rich application. One particularly nice
thing about kWinTV is the channel selection/storage mechanism. It
works as a regular TV in that the different channels are stored in
different ‘programs’. kWinTV has a separate window to show the
programs, and selecting from the different programs will change the
channel of the TV tuner. The nice thing about kWinTVs program
selector is that for every program, one can adjust a plethora of
settings such as fine tuning, input format, source, frequency
table, brightness, contrast, and so on. I found many of these
options very useful, and they constitute one of the great
advantages in using this program.”

“In conclusion, kWinTV is an extremely well-done application
with a very nice and clean interface. However, kWinTV does need
some bug-cleaning and some feature additions if it is to ultimately
surpass XawTV.”

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