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. 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.
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 EPG apps like xmltv browsers (f.i. KTvSchedule) that You can optionally launch with a (configurable) toolbar button. If You want to use the DCOP interface You can push Kalva into KDE's systemtray (works just like with JuK or amaroK).
You can manage Your videocollection with the build in file browser and Play the selected video files with MPlayer or call a (configurable) video editor on the active directory.
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).Last changelog:
binaries v0.8.90 (testing) -------------------------- This release brings IVTV support. As I do not owe a PVR card I can not test this. I am looking forward for Your profiles that may show up on kdefiles.org ;-) * SUSE 10.0 i586 with kde from stock (Sun Dec. 31 2007). + deb for kubuntu (Sat Jan. 05 200
binaries v0.8.81 (stable) ------------------------- * Fedora core 5 i386 (thanks to Martin Gansser, new since january 7th 2007) * ArchLinux-Buildfile * deb for Kubuntu dapper drake (thanks to Joí£o Pinto) * deb for Kubuntu breezy badger * SUSE 10.0 i586 with kde from stock. This time even linux user authors shouldn't be able to crash Kalva ;-)
* Wed 4th of october 2006 - ml@andreas-silberstorff.de - the rectangle for previewing the crop area when watching tv can now be turned off - improved the dcop iface for better use with tvbrowser - fixes a bug concerning tv options on the experts page of the quality profiles
binaries v0.8.78 (stable) ------------------------- Fedora core 5 i386 (thanks to Martin Gansser) SUSE 10.0 i586 with kde 3.5.3 from smart/apt (Use with care! If You do not have a decent KDE I have to advice You to wait for the offical apt RPM from suser-scorot to upgrade which will hopefully be available in the first week of july)
* Sun 18th of june 2006 - ml@andreas-silberstorff.de - fixes a bug that prevented the use of the aumix-functionality and raised also some other minor issues. - fixes some bugs concerning special chars in filmtitles or in the station names (better support for UTF
binaries v0.8.76 (stable) ------------------------- Debian package for SID (thanks to Harry Auschner)
* Fri Apr 14 2006 - fixed some compiler issues, compiles now on Fedora Core 5 - fixed a bug concerning the device combo for aumix - restarts running MPlayer (preview) when choosing profiles
since v0.8.75 (stable) ------------------------- * Fri Mar 31 2006 - ml@andreas-silberstorff.de - the profiles and the channellist are configurable from the main window, no need anymore to open prefs dialog for each recording session if You want to use a special profileset - bbugfix: no need for a channel to be set when recording from composite (i.e. input = 1) - fixed a bug in the movie manager when the daytime contains the searched string (was a too aggressive filter regex) - first code cleanups, -> improved filehandling, -> fixed some syntax issues (see http://www.icefox.net/kde/tests/index.html#playground/multimedia/kalva)
Also known to distribute Kalva: ------------------------------- Kalva-stable via klik SuSE 9.2-10.0 i386 and IA64 via apt (suser-scorot) Mandriva RPMs (cooker) Slackware PLD Gentoo
------------- for older history look at the homepage
Google gives me some hints that a patch for mplayer/mencoder might exist.
At least watching TV via mplayer seems to be possible. As I do not have an ivtv card I can not tell much about the progress.
It might be that Kalva can allready handle these cards if a patched mplayer/mencoder is installed. I can not tell if changes in Kalva are neccessary as I do not know the mplayer/mencoder commands for ivtv cards. I would be interessted in the options neccessary for ivtv cards.
Hi! THanks for the great application!
Does it support ivtv- driver-based cards (like the European current hauppauge PVR 350)? It encondes directly in mpeeg2 format! Do you think I can use kalva with that?
Thank you again
Valerio
Hi! THanks for the great application!
Does it support ivtv- driver-based cards (like the European current hauppauge PVR 350)? The card hardware encondes directly in mpeg format, do you think I will be able to use kalva with that?
Thank you again
Valerio
On SuSE 10.0 KDE 352
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kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:9:88: error: /home/taki/kdesvn/trunk/playground/multimedia/kalva/src/kalvaviewdcopiface.h: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:32: error: ‘KalvaviewDCOPInterface’ has not been declared
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp: In function ‘bool process(const QCString&, const QByteArray&, QCString&, QByteArray&)’:
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:36: error: ‘DcopMovieManagerRead’ was not declared in this scope
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:44: error: ‘DcopFuzzyStation’ was not declared in this scope
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:51: error: ‘DcopPlay’ was not declared in this scope
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:65: error: ‘DcopRecordNow’ was not declared in this scope
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:85: error: ‘DcopRecordMovie’ was not declared in this scope
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:105: error: ‘DcopRecordSerial’ was not declared in this scope
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:107: error: ‘DCOPObject’ has not been declared
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp: At global scope:
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:112: error: ‘QCStringList’ does not name a type
kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:119: error: ‘QCStringList’ does not name a type
make[4]: *** [kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.o] Erreur 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75/kalva/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75/kalva/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75/kalva'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75'
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30338 (%build)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30338 (%build)
raoul@linux:~>
Hi Raoul.
Strange that the compiler on Your mashine seems to look for generated sources in my local (!?) homedir .
How did You try to build Kalva?
Did You use the tar.bz2 or did You try to rebuild the SRPM with rpmbuild -ba?
Does it compile if You extract the tar.bz2 and use unsermake after make clean && ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3?
BTW my RPM was build on SUSE 10 with KDE 3.5.2 from kde-stable (apt). For SUSE with original KDE I hope Sebastien Scorot will build Kalva 0.8.76 for the repositories soon (a bugfix release is pending). I hope very much he will find some time soon.
Set input to 1 in the hardwareprofile should provide recording from composite.
You will have to provide one station in the channellist - this is fixed in subversion since yestereve ;-) but for the binaries you still need to set a station.
Love this app....works great with my bttv based card,but, ...mplayer/mencoder will not play nice with my cx8800 (leadtek Win2000 expert) based card!! I get a "half screen" and terrible picture.
Anyone else having this difficulty?
Anyway around this?
I made a debian package (for "unstable" aka "Sid") and everything works fine.
(Except for the necessity to add Config::Crontab to my installed perl modules.)
Nice to hear :-)
If you like to share the deb package you might mail me a link to put into the homepage or send me the package and I will put it on the download page.
If the card is supported by MPlayer / MEncoder, yes. Kalva is only a frontend. It supports every card that the MPlayer components support.
Looking at the ivytv site it seems that it is not supported at the moment. But maybe you should look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu and ask in a mailinglist on that site what the status of ivytv support is at the moment.
In fact that's not the encoding task which is needed but only schedule task cause the card outputs mpeg2 stream directly from the device. eg:
cat /dev/videoX > file.mpg
Bye.
Hi
Some time has gone into the land and things may change... With DVB cards You can record the mpeg2-stream with Kalva as the MEncoder gives a very simple solution to do this. MEncoder simply provides the copy output type for the input URL dvb./.
If a similarily simple solution for recording the mpeg stream from ivitv cards via MEncoder exists Kalva might support these cards as well. So if anyone out there having such a card can give me a hint about ivytv support in mencoder don't hesitate to drop me a line ;-)
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Thanks to Martin Ganser binary and source RPMs for Fedora are available from the project site now.
kalva-0.8.81-lotus.i586.rpm at http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/ under DOWNLOAD section ( My SuSE RPM's )
kalva-0.8.81-lotus.1.i586.rpm at http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/ under DOWNLOAD section ( My SuSE RPMS's )
kalva-0.8.81-lotus.i586.rpm at http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/ under DOWNLOAD section
Google gives me some hints that a patch for mplayer/mencoder might exist. At least watching TV via mplayer seems to be possible. As I do not have an ivtv card I can not tell much about the progress. It might be that Kalva can allready handle these cards if a patched mplayer/mencoder is installed. I can not tell if changes in Kalva are neccessary as I do not know the mplayer/mencoder commands for ivtv cards. I would be interessted in the options neccessary for ivtv cards.
Hi! THanks for the great application! Does it support ivtv- driver-based cards (like the European current hauppauge PVR 350)? It encondes directly in mpeeg2 format! Do you think I can use kalva with that? Thank you again Valerio
Hi! THanks for the great application! Does it support ivtv- driver-based cards (like the European current hauppauge PVR 350)? The card hardware encondes directly in mpeg format, do you think I will be able to use kalva with that? Thank you again Valerio
kalva-0.8.76-lotus.i586.rpm at http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/downloadSuSE10.1.htm ENJOY !!!
kalva-0.8.76-1-lotus.i586.rpm at http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/downloadSuSE10.0.htm ENJOY !!!
On SuSE 10.0 KDE 352 -------------------- kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:9:88: error: /home/taki/kdesvn/trunk/playground/multimedia/kalva/src/kalvaviewdcopiface.h: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:32: error: ‘KalvaviewDCOPInterface’ has not been declared kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp: In function ‘bool process(const QCString&, const QByteArray&, QCString&, QByteArray&)’: kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:36: error: ‘DcopMovieManagerRead’ was not declared in this scope kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:44: error: ‘DcopFuzzyStation’ was not declared in this scope kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:51: error: ‘DcopPlay’ was not declared in this scope kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:65: error: ‘DcopRecordNow’ was not declared in this scope kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:85: error: ‘DcopRecordMovie’ was not declared in this scope kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:105: error: ‘DcopRecordSerial’ was not declared in this scope kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:107: error: ‘DCOPObject’ has not been declared kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp: At global scope: kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:112: error: ‘QCStringList’ does not name a type kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.cpp:119: error: ‘QCStringList’ does not name a type make[4]: *** [kalvaviewdcopiface_skel.o] Erreur 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75/kalva/src' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75/kalva/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75/kalva' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kalva-0.8.75' make: *** [all] Erreur 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30338 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30338 (%build) raoul@linux:~>
Hi Raoul. Strange that the compiler on Your mashine seems to look for generated sources in my local (!?) homedir . How did You try to build Kalva? Did You use the tar.bz2 or did You try to rebuild the SRPM with rpmbuild -ba? Does it compile if You extract the tar.bz2 and use unsermake after make clean && ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3? BTW my RPM was build on SUSE 10 with KDE 3.5.2 from kde-stable (apt). For SUSE with original KDE I hope Sebastien Scorot will build Kalva 0.8.76 for the repositories soon (a bugfix release is pending). I hope very much he will find some time soon.
Having the same problem with KRPMBUILDER and RPMBUILD command
would be nice to have the ability to use the composite input. I use Composite1
Set input to 1 in the hardwareprofile should provide recording from composite. You will have to provide one station in the channellist - this is fixed in subversion since yestereve ;-) but for the binaries you still need to set a station.
Love this app....works great with my bttv based card,but, ...mplayer/mencoder will not play nice with my cx8800 (leadtek Win2000 expert) based card!! I get a "half screen" and terrible picture. Anyone else having this difficulty? Anyway around this?
A SlackWare 10.2 Package with SlackBuild script is ready to download!! http://www.slacky.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=1&func=fileinfo&filecatid=782&parent=category
kalva-0.8.0-SuSE9.3K343.i586.rpm and kalva-debuginfo-0.8.0-SuSE9.3K343.i586.rpm at http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/download.h ENJOY !!!
Thanks for rebuilding the RPM. I should have mentioned the following site, where You can find RPMs for many SuSE-releases. So if You want kalva stable on a decent SuSE you can just apt-get install kalva. I will try to convince Sebastien to build kalva 0.8.49c RPMs for apt as well. I could as well call 0.8.49c stable though, it runs as stable as 0.8.0. It is only that it is not as complete as I want it for 0.9. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/RPMS.suser-scorot http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-x86_64/RPMS.suser-scorot http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-i386/RPMS.suser-scorot http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-x86_64/RPMS.suser-scorot http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-scorot http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-x86_64/RPMS.suser-scorot
Thanks for the great app !
I made a debian package (for "unstable" aka "Sid") and everything works fine. (Except for the necessity to add Config::Crontab to my installed perl modules.)
Nice to hear :-) If you like to share the deb package you might mail me a link to put into the homepage or send me the package and I will put it on the download page.
Really great app ! Do ypu plan to support ivtv cards? http://ivtv.sourceforge.net
If the card is supported by MPlayer / MEncoder, yes. Kalva is only a frontend. It supports every card that the MPlayer components support. Looking at the ivytv site it seems that it is not supported at the moment. But maybe you should look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu and ask in a mailinglist on that site what the status of ivytv support is at the moment.
In fact that's not the encoding task which is needed but only schedule task cause the card outputs mpeg2 stream directly from the device. eg: cat /dev/videoX > file.mpg Bye.
Hi Some time has gone into the land and things may change... With DVB cards You can record the mpeg2-stream with Kalva as the MEncoder gives a very simple solution to do this. MEncoder simply provides the copy output type for the input URL dvb./. If a similarily simple solution for recording the mpeg stream from ivitv cards via MEncoder exists Kalva might support these cards as well. So if anyone out there having such a card can give me a hint about ivytv support in mencoder don't hesitate to drop me a line ;-)
Updated to version 0.6.2 now. Sorry for oversight http://nzlinux.orcon.net.nz/