GLTV is a TV application using OpenGL and SDL, offering quality viewing for users.
If you're in the market for a new tv viewing application, GLTV may be worth checking out. This program is designed using OpenGL and SDL, providing a smooth viewing experience. One of the standout features of GLTV is its easy method of adding visually pleasing on screen display (OSD) elements. While it currently only supports the basics, the developer has plans to add support for XMLTV tv listings in the future.
One thing to keep in mind is that this application uses alpha blending and double buffered reads, which means you will likely need a decent video card and CPU to run it efficiently. It may take up to 50% of a TBird 1.2GHz machine, but only 1-2% of 1.5GB of RAM. Additionally, there are a lot of textures used, as the video is texture mapped onto a quad. This could result in a need for a fair amount of video memory.
Overall, GLTV requires a video4linux (1) capture card, OpenGL, Freetype 2, SDL, and XMLwrapp. While theoretically any capture card should work, the developer has been exclusively using a bttv based one (Hauppauge, bt878), which may impact compatibility with other cards or drivers. However, if you experience any issues or have success with other cards, be sure to let the developer know so they can address the problem or add support to the list of known supported drivers.
Finally, users must have a file called .gltvrc in their home directory. An example with the default options can be found in the source directory under gltvrc.default.
One thing to keep in mind is that this application uses alpha blending and double buffered reads, which means you will likely need a decent video card and CPU to run it efficiently. It may take up to 50% of a TBird 1.2GHz machine, but only 1-2% of 1.5GB of RAM. Additionally, there are a lot of textures used, as the video is texture mapped onto a quad. This could result in a need for a fair amount of video memory.
Overall, GLTV requires a video4linux (1) capture card, OpenGL, Freetype 2, SDL, and XMLwrapp. While theoretically any capture card should work, the developer has been exclusively using a bttv based one (Hauppauge, bt878), which may impact compatibility with other cards or drivers. However, if you experience any issues or have success with other cards, be sure to let the developer know so they can address the problem or add support to the list of known supported drivers.
Finally, users must have a file called .gltvrc in their home directory. An example with the default options can be found in the source directory under gltvrc.default.
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