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KatchTV

Welcome to KatchTV. Please refer to the HTML manual in the Docs directory, or from inside the program, for usage instructions.

Screenshots

Screenshot of KatchTV showing its video playback

Screenshot of KatchTV showing its multi-threaded, multi-protocol downloading

Screenshot of KatchTV showing directory browsing

Requirements

This is a PyKDE app, so you'll need the following installed:

  • python (2.4+ advised)
  • PyKDE and PyQt.

You'll also need a KDE movie player, which is capable of embedding as a KPart into KHTML-based browsers. That generally means on of:

  • Kaffeine
  • KMPlayer
  • Mozplugger

Kaffeine seems to work best for me, although I haven't tried Mozplugger at all.

Note that you can individually choose which embedded player will be used, from the file associations section of Konqueror's preferences. Just go the embedded tab for a media file type, and change the preferred KPart order.

IMPORTANT: when I say that kaffeine works best for me, I mean that KMPlayer seems to be fond of crashing KatchTV. That's not KatchTV's fault, as far as I can tell. Use kaffeine instead, as instructed above.

Consult your GNU/Linux/*BSD/HURD whatever distro's documentation for details on how to get and install those packages. On most distros, it's pretty straightforward, and shouldn't be a problem.

Installation

To actually install this, the easiest way is just to move the untarred directory to some location like /usr/local/KatchTV, and then make a symlink from that directory's KatchTV executable into /usr/local/bin or your personal ~/bin directory.

So basically, from scratch, you can do:

cd /usr/local tar xvjf /path/to/the_downloaded/KatchTVtarball.tar.bz2 ln -s /usr/local/KatchTV/KatchTV /usr/local/bin/KatchTV

Then, just run KatchTV from the command line, or make a KDE icon for it :)

Let me know if you run into any problems -- just email:

[email protected]

Comments, suggestions, and improvements are also welcome, of course!

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Consult the included LICENSE.txt file for specific details.

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