tvtime.xml(5) | File Formats Manual | tvtime.xml(5) |
NAME¶
tvtime.xml - tvtime configuration fileSYNOPSIS¶
~/.tvtime/tvtime.xmlDESCRIPTION¶
The tvtime.xml file is the main configuration file for tvtime. It contains all of the default settings and key bindings. The tvtime.xml file is updated by tvtime at runtime, to store settings across sessions. For this reason, you should not edit the tvtime.xml file while tvtime is running, as your changes may be overwritten.<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE tvtime PUBLIC "-//tvtime//DTD tvtime 1.0//EN"
"http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/DTD/tvtime1.dtd">
<tvtime xmlns="http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/DTD/">
</tvtime>
OPTIONS¶
tvtime supports a multitude of options. The <option> tag should be contained within a <tvtime> tag.- <option name="Verbose" value="0"/>
- The verbose setting indicates that we should print full
informational and warning messages to stderr while running tvtime.
Otherwise, only fatal errors will be printed to the output.
- <option name="V4LDevice" value="/dev/video0"/>
- This sets the default capture device to use.
- <option name="V4LInput" value="0"/>
- This sets the default capture card input to be opened by
tvtime. For example, for my WinTV card has the tuner as source
0, and its composite input as source 1. Sources can be
changed at runtime using the toggle_input command, which is key
command “i” by default.
- <option name="Norm" value="NTSC"/>
- This sets the default TV norm. Valid options are:
• NTSC • NTSC-JP • SECAM • PAL • PAL-Nc • PAL-M • PAL-N • PAL-60
- <option name="SaveAndRestorePictureSettings" value="1"/>
- This option indicates whether tvtime should enable
its own saving and restoring of picture settings, both on startup and per
channel change.
- <option name="AudioMode" value="stereo"/>
- This option saves the last used audio mode. This will be
used to remember which audio mode to select when the application is
next started. Valid options here are "mono", "stereo",
"lang1", "lang2" or "sap".
- <option name="AudioBoost" value="-1"/>
- This option sets the audio boost. This is a percentage
for how much to set the volume coming out of the capture card. By
default, tvtime does not set the audio at all. However, because the volume
sometimes does not have a sane default, or is reset by other applications,
you can use this value to have it always set to your favorite volume. Use
-1 to have tvtime not touch the volume.
- <option name="ShowCC" value="0"/>
- This option saves the state of closed caption decoding.
Closed captions are an NTSC-specific text version of the audio for the
hearing impaired.
- <option name="ColourInvert" value="0"/>
- This value saves the on-off state of the colour invert
filter across sessions.
- <option name="MirrorInput" value="0"/>
- This value saves the on-off state of the mirror filter
across sessions.
- <option name="Frequencies" value="US-Cable"/>
- This sets the default frequency table to use for any tuners
found. Possibilities are:
• us-cable • us-broadcast • japan-cable • japan-broadcast • europe • australia • australia-optus • newzealand • france • russia
- <option name="NTSCCableMode" value="Standard"/>
- There are two special NTSC cable standards in the US: IRC
and HRC. In IRC, channels 5 and 6 are on different frequencies, and HRC
mode shifts all frequencies up by 1.25MHz (and is also weird on channels 5
and 6). Use this option to set the cable mode to Standard,
IRC, or HRC. It is very rare that you will see cable systems
that use IRC or HRC cable.
- <option name="CheckForSignal" value="1"/>
- Toggle whether tvtime should check if there is a
signal present when changing channels etc. If your card doesn't suck, you
shouldn't need to shut this off. Disabling this feature will also disable
the channel scanner.
- <option name="InputWidth" value="720"/>
- This sets how many pixels per scanline to request from the
capture card. A higher setting gives better quality, while a lower setting
means we do less work, and so tvtime will run faster. If you have a
slower CPU (like, less than 500Mhz or so), maybe values of 480 or
400 might suit you best. For best quality, choose a high value like
720 or 768. Most capture cards cannot sample higher than
768 pixels per scanline.
- <option name="XMLTVFile" value="none"/>
- Set this to a filename to get show listings from an xmltv
file. Set to "none" if you do not wish to use xmltv.
- <option name="XMLTVLanguage" value="none"/>
- Set this to a two-letter language code to set the language
to use for entries in the XMLTV file (for example, use "de" for
German). Set to "none" if you wish to use the default language
of the file.
- <option name="UseXDS" value="0"/>
- Set this to 1 to enable XDS channel information
decoding. This option is specific to NTSC regions. XDS is used to send
information about the channel including the network name and call letters,
and sometimes information about the current show.
- <option name="VBIDevice" value="/dev/vbi0"/>
- This sets which device to use for VBI decoding.
- <option name="MixerDevice" value="/dev/mixer:line"/>
- This sets the mixer device and channel to use. The format
is device name:channel name. Valid channels are:
- <option name="SquarePixels" value="1"/>
- Disabling this option tells tvtime to use the X server DPI
to determine pixel shape. By default, tvtime assumes pixels are square.
Set this to 0 if you have a 4:3 monitor but run it at 1280x1024 and want
tvtime to do the right thing.
- <option name="Widescreen" value="0"/>
- This option enables 16:9 aspect ratio mode by default on
startup.
- <option name="WindowGeometry" value="0x576"/>
- Sets the geometry of the window. A width value of 0
signifies that the appropriate width for the given height will be used.
For 4:3 content on a square pixel display, this defaults to a
768×576 window.
- <option name="Overscan" value="0.0"/>
- This sets the percent of the sides to leave to the
overscan, that is, don't show them at all. Safe action area on a
television is 10% in the overscan, but that's a bit restrictive. If you
want tvtime to look like a TV, a good value would be about
6–8%. The value is in percent, so for 8%, use 8.0.
- <option name="Fullscreen" value="0"/>
- Set this to 1 to have tvtime start in
fullscreen mode. This setting is set at runtime so that when you quit
tvtime in fullscreen, starting it again will start back in
fullscreen mode.
- <option name="AlwaysOnTop" value="0"/>
- Set this to 1 to have tvtime start in
always-on-top mode under supporting window managers. This setting is set
at runtime so that when you quit tvtime in always-on-top mode,
starting it again will start back in always-on-top mode.
- <option name="FullscreenPosition" value="Centre"/>
- Sets the position of the output when in fullscreen mode:
top, bottom or centre. When set to top,
tvtime in fullscreen will place its output at the top of the
screen. Use if you have a projector to help tvtime fit properly
onto your screen.
- <option name="FramerateMode" value="0"/>
- This sets the framerate of the output from tvtime.
- 0
- Full framerate mode, every field is deinterlaced. 59.94fps
for NTSC, 50fps for PAL.
- 1
- Half framerate mode, deinterlace every top field to a frame
(TFF). 29.97fps for NTSC, 25fps for PAL.
- 2
- Half framerate mode, deinterlace every bottom field to a frame (BFF). 29.97fps for NTSC, 25fps for PAL.
- The two half framerate modes are useful for progressive
content from video game consoles. Use weave and select either TFF or BFF,
whichever does not exhibit interlace effects.
- <option name="QuietScreenshots" value="0"/>
- When this option is turned on, screenshots will not
announce themselves on the OSD. This is useful if you intend to take a lot
of screenshots, and don't want the text to interrupt your TV watching or
appear in other screenshots.
- <option name="ProcessPriority" value="-10"/>
- Sets the default process priority. By default,
tvtime tries to set itself at a priority of –10 which
higher than normal applications. Acceptable values are from
–20 to 20, with lower values meaning higher priority.
- <option name="TimeFormat" value="%X"/>
- Sets the time format to be used in the tvtime
on-screen display. The format is a string in the same format as
strftime(3). The default is to use the time format of your locale.
- <option name="ScreenShotDir" value="~"/>
- This is the default directory in which screenshots are
placed. The default is to save them into the user's home directory.
- <option name="ChannelTextFG" value="0xFFFFFF00"/>
- <option name="OtherTextFG" value="0xFFF5DEB3"/>
- These options set the ARGB colours used for the text in the
on-screen display. The default for the channel name is
“yellow” (0xffffff00), and the default for the
surrounding text is “wheat” (0xfff5deb3). The colour
format can be hexadecimal or decimal. If the alpha channel is not
specified the default is “opaque” (255).
- Examples:
- 0xffaadd, 0xff0000ff, 0xff, 0xffff, 255 255 0, 0, 16777215.
- <option name="UnmuteVolume" value="-1"/>
- This setting saves the volume before muting across tvtime
sessions. You should not ever need to set this yourself.
- <option name="Muted" value="0"/>
- This setting saves whether or not tvtime was muted when it
was last exited. You should not ever need to set this yourself.
- <option name="MuteOnExit" value="0"/>
- This setting controls whether tvtime should mute its mixer
device on exit. Use this to work around noisy capture cards.
- <option name="ShowTaglines" value="1"/>
- This setting controls whether tvtime should show the silly
taglines in the window title bar. Set to 0 to shut them off.
- <option name="PrevChannel" value="2"/>
- This setting is saved at runtime to remember the previous
channel.
- <option name="Channel" value="2"/>
- This setting is saved at runtime to remember the current
channel.
- <option name="DeinterlaceMethod" value="AdaptiveAdvanced"/>
- This setting is saved at runtime to remember the
deinterlacer used.
- TelevisionFull
- Television: Full Resolution
- TelevisionHalf
- Television: Half Resolution
- BlurVertical
- Blur: Vertical
- BlurTemporal
- Blur: Temporal
- AdaptiveSearch
- Motion Adaptive: Motion Search
- AdaptiveAdvanced
- Motion Adaptive: Advanced Detection
- AdaptiveSimple
- Motion Adaptive: Simple Detection
- ProgressiveTFF
- Progressive: Top Field First
- ProgressiveBFF
- Progressive: Bottom Field First
BINDINGS¶
Key presses and mouse button clicks can be mapped to tvtime commands. For a description of each command, see tvtime-command(1).<bind command="channel_inc">
<keyboard key="up"/>
<keyboard key="k"/>
<mouse button="4"/>
</bind>
<bind command="screenshot" argument="/tmp/last-screenshot.png">
<keyboard key="s"/>
</bind>
AUTHOR¶
Billy Biggs.SEE ALSO¶
tvtime(1), tvtime-configure(1), tvtime-command(1), tvtime-scanner(1), stationlist.xml(5).October 2004 | tvtime 1.0RC1 |