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Submitted:  Apr 30 2006
Updated:  Feb 18 2009

Description:

KatchTV is an "Internet TV" application for KDE, otherwise known as a broadcatcher. It makes it easy to subscribe to "TV" channels from all over the internet in the form of podcasts, so that you can browse channels, download shows, and watch them, all from one convenient interface.

Supported features include:

* Video podcasts ("vodcasts").
* Bittorrent-based broadcatching.
* Audio podcasts.
* Multiple background downloads of media and updates of feeds, all while you watch/listen to your favourite shows.
* Manages any media you download, so that you don't lose track of your disk space.
* Built-in KHTML-based web browser, with specific customisations for this application.
* Automatically subscribes to any feeds you click on while browsing.
* Uses KDE's default embedded media players, for flexible configuration and KDE integration.
* Supports Macromedia Flash movies, if you have a suitable plugin.
* Built-in bookmarks of major vodcast/podcast sites, so you don't have to look to hard for great content.
* Stores episode details along with downloaded media to make tracking easier.
* Allows manually adding any feeds (in case some site makes it awkward to add them
* Can also read standard RSS news feeds, if you prefer not to run separate media and news aggregators.
* Feed for KatchTV updates, so you never have to miss the latest features.

Installation is easy, as long as your distro has PyKDE, PyQt, and a movie player capable of playing videos inside Konqueror, such as Kaffeine or MPlayer. Just untar to some directory like /usr/local, and run the KatchTV program. You can also make a symlink to that executable from a directory like /usr/local/bin, and KatchTV will work out where to find its files. Oh, you seem to also need konsole for PyKDE, although that's probably a bug in PyKDE.

Comments welcome; let me know if you've any problems using it.




Changelog:

* Display feeds in reverse chronological (latest first) order always (fixes a regression)
* Separately track unseen/seen vs. new/old episodes
* Better coloring for new/old/downloaded episodes, so it's easy to see what's new
* Various small bugfixes and improvements
* (internal) improvements to code documentation

(latest update is just to change homepage and download links to KatchTV's new site)




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 Democracy TV links

 
 by tekwyzrd on: May 3 2006  
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I couldn't get it to do anything with Democracy TV links. Hit the subscribe buttons and... nothing.


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 Re: Democracy TV links

 
 by jel on: May 3 2006  
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It works, honest! :)

Can you tell me a little more?

Are you clicking subscribe on lots of different channels, and still getting nothing, or is it just one channel? The channels aren't made by me, or the democracy TV folks, so not all are made properly. Most work fine though.

When you say "nothing"... do you really mean that NOTHING happens? No status bar message saying that a bookmark has been added?

Do other channel guides work for you -- VOD Stock, for instance?

If you can send this stuff as a bug report, to the email address at the bottom of the help page, along with any details about your system that might be relevant (distro, python version, kde version, etc.), then I'll try to get it sorted out for you ASAP.

Thanks for reporting this.


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 Won't start

 
 by Matti on: May 6 2006  
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I'm getting this on start, and it crashes:

::06:23:49::matt@mattsbox::~/.kde/share/config::
==> /usr/local/bin/KatchTV

Welcome to KatchTV
Use the --help argument for version info etc.

Please wait a moment while the application loads.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/KatchTV", line 68, in ?
mainFunc()
File "/usr/local/bin/KatchTV", line 55, in mainFunc
mainWin = KTVMainWindow(appRoot)
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 1486, in __init__
self.browser.goToURL(u'katchtv:welcome:')
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 1048, in goToURL
self.handleCustomURL(url)
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 994, in handleCustomURL
self._writeWelcome()
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 674, in _writeWelcome
if self._window.getUpdater().updateIsAvailable():
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 153, in updateIsAvailable
latestVer = self.latestVersion()
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 147, in latestVersion
return int(self.getData())
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 33, in getData
self._doUpdate()
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 104, in _doUpdate
latestVer = _simpleHTTPRead(self.__updateRootURL + '/' + self.__projectName + '.latest_' + self.__releaseType)
File "/home/matt/tmp/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 66, in _simpleHTTPRead
raise IOError("Couldn't download '%s; HTTP Error %s -- %s" % (url, resp.status, resp.reason))
IOError: Couldn't download 'http://dev.digitalunleashed.com/__updates__/katchtv.latest_release; HTTP Error 404 -- Not Found


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 Re: Won't start

 
 by jel on: May 6 2006  
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Sorry about that; assuming your network is OK, then I guess the site was overloaded or something. The latest version:


http://www.digitalunleashed.com/downloads/katchtv/katchtv_47_release.tar.bz2

detects these problems, and continues anyway with an informative message, so that should get it working for you.

However, if you're sure your network is OK, the updates don't work, and it's more than an intermittent problem that might be due to net congestion or overload on my site, then please let me send me any more info you can on your setup, and I'll try to resolve it ASAP.

Thanks for your bug reports; much appreciated :)


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 SlackWare TGZ Packag

 
 by gohanz on: May 7 2006  
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A SlackWare TGz package with SlackBuild Script is Ready to DownLoad!!!

http://www.slacky.it/

http://www.slacky.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=1&func=fileinfo&filecatid=1117&parent=category


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 Re: SlackWare TGZ Packag

 
 by jel on: May 7 2006  
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Thanks gohanz; it's good to see distro support happening so soon. I just noticed that there's already a FreeBSD port as well :)


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 Does not work?

 
 by peterho on: May 11 2006  
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I have installed KatchTv, but cannot get it to work. I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/KatchTV", line 35, in ?
from kdecore import KAboutData, KCmdLineArgs, KApplication
ImportError: No module named kdecore
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Note that I have kde-core installed. I am using Debian with kernel 2.6.12-1-686.

Any suggestions?

Peter
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 Re: Does not work?

 
 by jel on: May 11 2006  
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Hi peterho,

You have KDE installed, but not the pykde libraries for python. The debian package should be something like python2.4-kde :)


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 Re: Re: Does not wor

 
 by peterho on: May 11 2006  
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Hi Jel,

Thanks for the tip. KatchTV now starts. I can download videos, but am unable to view any of them, as KatchTV hangs (My CPU goes into maximum) when I try to play anything from Democracy TV

Peter
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 Re: Re: Re: Does not wor

 
 by jel on: May 11 2006  
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That's probably an issue with whatever video player you have installed; KatchTV will use whatever the default is in KDE for embedded media. You should read through the included README file and the built-in manual (press help, in the bottom left corner) to get a better understanding of how to setup your system.

If you're still having trouble after following the manual, you should email a full bug report (again, see the manual for the email address etc.), with as many details as possible about what you tried to do, what you expected, what actually happened, etc. There are many feeds on each of the channel directory sites, and quite a few of them use different techniques.


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 GTK apps

 
 by sbenitezb on: May 15 2006  
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"It's much faster, and lighter on resources if you run a KDE desktop without GTK apps."

I use KDE and like more the KDE applications. But I find this sentence a little bit offtopic. It doesn't matter this is a KDE site, GTK apps sometimes offer a better solution than KDE apps. So why shouldn't I use GTK apps? If you meant that GTK apps, because of the loaded dependencies, consume your precious system resources that you need for your application, then I shouldn't be running any other resource-intensive KDE application like Kopete or Konqueror. GTK applications introduce library dependencies just like KDE applications may introduce other library dependencies not normally loaded. That is not an argument against GTK applications. In fact, there isn't any argument against GTK applications. If someone finds there is some application s/he needs and it's a GTK application, what or who prevents him/her from using it?


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 Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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Well, you're entitled to your point of view. I stand by what I said, however.


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 Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by sbenitezb on: May 15 2006  
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Without argument? Just because you can? It is not fair to abuse this place with your political or personal view on which library or applications someone should use. At least give a good reason as to why GTK applications interfere with the correct functioning of KatchTV. What you do is like saying "I don't like GTK applications, by the way". There's no reason to do that in your application's description.

You can blog about it, write a book, publish comments, even troll. But I think putting a sentence like previously stated in the app's description is not only unfair, but completely useless. Not part of the app itself.


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 Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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I'm sorry if you wanted an argument. I'm not interested in one however. As I said, my opinion stands. Take it or leave it.


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 Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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I guess you might be misreading my comment. When I said "It's much faster.." I'm still referring to KatchTV, not making a general statement. If I was changing topic, it would have at least been in a new paragraph.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by sbenitezb on: May 15 2006  
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"I guess you might be misreading my comment. When I said "It's much faster.." I'm still referring to KatchTV, not making a general statement."

Sorry, but I fail to see how KatchTV will be much faster anymore than any other application by not using GTK applications. I use Gnumeric most of the time to open XLS files, because KSpread doesn't open them correctly. My system doesn't slow down, even if I'm playing music with AmaroK, which is very resource intensive. Gnumeric also introduces all GNOME libraries you imagine. I don't like that, but I don't have any other solution at hand. Purism won't help me. I have to say that my PC is a P3 600Mhz, 192MB memory and a 10GB disk. It performs pretty well, for what I have.

"If I was changing topic, it would have at least been in a new paragraph."

Well, perhaps I should have said irrelevant. What if I have 2GB of memory and a quad processor system? Does not using GTK applications at all affect me? Or does not using GTK applications really make KatchTV faster? I don't think so. A video application depends mostly from processor availability to decode the video. It depends a bit too on available memory. But tell me how an open GTK application could make KatchTV slow?


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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Well, if you don't understand, you don't understand. Doesn't change the facts. Sorry.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by sbenitezb on: May 15 2006  
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I do understand. And I gave you the facts and the arguments for those facts. You didn't.



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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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Well, again, I'm sorry if you don't like it. But, if you live under the impression that everyone must be wrong if they don't take the time to debate things with you, then you live in a very deluded world indeed. The fact is, your argument is silly, and I've no interest in debating it with you, much less the time to do so. That's just the way it is, so I'd suggest that you get used to it, or find someone else to troll.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by sbenitezb on: May 15 2006  
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It is not me the one who's trolling. And certainly I'm not here to debate. But I found your sentence totally unnecessary, childish and not really factual. Talking bullshit about other applications that don't fit your own karma is not correct. It's just the same stupidity I'm used to find on blogs and forums about GTK/GNOME vs QT/KDE that doesn't help, and if anything, it scares people away from free software.

What is the interaction between KatchTV and GTK applications that prevents KatchTV from running appropriately when there are GTK applications running? Because that is really bullshit, nonsense. So if I'm wrong, please excuse my ignorance on the subject and please enlighten me and show me the truth, prove me I'm wrong.

Denying everything and just saying I don't understand is either the idiotic method to escape from the truth or egoism for not helping others to understand what you said to understand.

Don't hide yourself behind the denials or the insults. That won't help you nor me.



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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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Yes, whatever.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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Sorry, that was impolite. I didn't mean to be. But, you will simply have to accept that I don't care to debate this with you. It's just that simple.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GTK apps

 
 by sbenitezb on: May 15 2006  
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I will accept that.



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 help plz!

 
 by illuminatus23 on: May 15 2006  
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Just my first try to get it running, cuz it looks and sounds nice ;-)

malvin@galileo:~$ KatchTV

Welcome to KatchTV
Use the --help argument for version info etc.

Please wait a moment while the application loads.


[COMMENT: this took ~ 6 minutes *grr*]


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/KatchTV", line 68, in ?
mainFunc()
File "/usr/local/bin/KatchTV", line 55, in mainFunc
mainWin = KTVMainWindow(appRoot)
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 1494, in __init__
self.browser.goToURL(u'katchtv:welcome:')
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 1056, in goToURL
self.handleCustomURL(url)
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 1002, in handleCustomURL
self._writeWelcome()
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 675, in _writeWelcome
if self._window.getUpdater().updateIsAvailable():
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 158, in updateIsAvailable
latestVer = self.latestVersion()
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 152, in latestVersion
return int(self.getData())
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 34, in getData
self._doUpdate()
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 109, in _doUpdate
latestVer = _simpleHTTPRead(url)
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/OnlineUpdate/OnlineUpdater.py", line 64, in _simpleHTTPRead
conn.endheaders()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 795, in endheaders
self._send_output()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 676, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 643, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 627, in connect
raise socket.error, msg
socket.error: (110, 'Die Wartezeit f\xfcr die Verbindung ist abgelaufen')
Exception in thread Thread-1 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap
File "/usr/local/KatchTV/uicode/KTVMainWindow.py", line 443, in run
exceptions.AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'sleep'
Unhandled exception in thread started by
Error in sys.excepthook:

Original exception was:
malvin@galileo:~$


and what to do now, guys?! *help* *cry*
any libs missing on my system? I installed pykde already and kaffeine works fine...


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 Re: help plz!

 
 by jel on: May 15 2006  
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Hmm... it looks like the python time module is missing on your system. You may have an old version of python, or your distro's python package may have a bug; I'm not sure. I'm really busy with work right now, but I'll try to look into this in a few days, and get back to you. Let me know if anything you try fixes it before then.


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 Re: help plz!

 
 by jel on: May 23 2006  
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Hi again :)

Sorry, I was looking at the wrong error before. The socket.error line is the important one here; I fixed a problem like that in a recent release though. Can you download the latest version, and tell me if you still have problems with it?

You should check that your DNS functions normally (especially if you normally use a non-kde browser, like firefox); that might have been the cause of the delays. Also, make sure your computer isn't doing other things when you test.

I'm not (quite) as busy right now, so if you can get back to me soon, and there are still issues, I'll try to get them sorted out quickly for you :)


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 Re: Re: help plz!

 
 by illuminatus23 on: May 23 2006  
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hey, thanks for your help!
but it's still not working...
my DNS-Settings are correct, I'm pretty sure. I also think it's a kind of timeout as the prog isn't using any ressources before it breaks down... Does KatchTV need a direct internet correction? Because i'm behind a http(s)-proxy as i use the internet connection of my school. What ports does KatchTV need opened? And to which servers? Would be nice to know, so I could config our proxy and routers the right way ;-)
Hint: The program should give more detailed and "noob-friendly" error messages...
cu, !llu


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 Re: Re: Re: help plz!

 
 by jel on: May 23 2006  
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Yes, you should probably open port 80 outgoing to dev.digitalunleashed.com for now, since it checks for updates there, and the code doesn't (currently) support proxy settings. That was an oversight on my part, that I'll resolve soon. All other web access is done through KDE, or a through a downloader library which supports the http_proxy, https_proxy, and ftp_proxy environment variables. I have KDE set to use my environment variables too, so it doesn't get out of sync. I'm planning to re-write some of the downloading stuff, so I may be able to get it all using KDE's settings eventually.

On the error messages... yes, you're right. It's really not supposed to show those errors at all; the latest version catches most of them and displays nice messages, but I'll handle any other ones as soon as I can too :)


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