Televidilo soft display on your computer different TV streams which are available all around the web. You can also record these streams with this patch : http://kubuntu.free.fr/depot/fichiers/patchs/ [apply it with patch -p0 < Televidilo-0.6-record.patch ]

Ubuntu doc : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/televidilo

Official website :  http://home.gna.org/televidilo/

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