Kaffeine

Kaffeine is a full featured Multimedia-Player for KDE. By default it uses xine as backend.

Kaffeine is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Features:

• Timeshifting
• Instant record
• Electronic Program Guide
• On screen display

What is new in this release:

• initial KDE4 release based on KDE4, QT4, Phonon and Solid
• much of the code base was rewritten;
• as a consequence not all features from old kaffeine are present yet
• supports:
• KDE integration
• DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T and ATSC devices
• multiple devices and device hot plug
• scanning inclusive region-based DVB-T Autoscan
• audio stream and subtitle selection
• recordings inclusive instant record
• time shifting
• EPG (incomplete)
• audio CDs, video CDs and DVDs
• stuff you might miss: (working hard on them of course ;-)
• localization (see below), full EPG support, CICAM, playlist handling, OSD, S2API, broadcast, DBUS interface
• note: there will be a follow-up release in 1 - 1.5 months fixing important shortcomings and also giving time for translations
• note: KDE 4.2, Phonon 4.3 and QT 4.4 are required to build / run Kaffeine
• note: Kaffeine currently depends on phonon-xine for digital TV playback (due to the used phonon API)
• note: you have to reconfigure / rescan if you were using snapshots before