Kaffeine is a media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) for the Linux KDE desktop environment.




SmartDVB is described as 'This is a fully functional DVB application which supports DVB-S/T/C and ATSC devices. Emphasis has been put on making the application as fast as possibile when changing channels and other dvb operations like scanning' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are eight alternatives to SmartDVB for Windows, Linux, KDE Plasma and Flathub. The best SmartDVB alternative is Kaffeine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SmartDVB are ProgDVB, SichboPVR, DVBViewer and ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre.
Kaffeine is a media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) for the Linux KDE desktop environment.




ProgDVB - the universal and very power software for watching digital TV and listening to radio channels.


SichboPVR is free TV software that is designed to work with most DVB-S, DVB-T and ATSC tuners and provide a fun and exciting television viewing experience.


DVBViewer allows you to experience Digital TV on your PC. With a proper DVB card you can enter the world of digital entertainment and experience high quality, incredibly sharp TV pictures and near CD quality radio!






ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre is your all-in-one media player that plays videos, DVDs, Blu-ray and 3D discs, online video and more with cinema-like experience. It delivers stunning Blu-ray 3D and HD video playback and supports almost all video files like WMV, FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP4...



DVB Dream is DVB player with many nice and unique features (more below), it supports standards DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T (more below).


TV Card Software to watch and record Freeview, Freesat and Satellite TV on your computer!


Using a tuner, this command line tool makes possible to generate a XSPF playlist from the channels it detects. This playlist can be used to make VLC tune the TV.
DVBViewer can provide a log file for TV records.