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ICN INFO.PNG This section shall give you an idea of other (thrid-party) tools and helpers which other ARGUS TV users use in addition to their ARGUS TV installation.

The following lists are alphabetically sorted and represent no ranking or preference.


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Front-Ends & Clients

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Tool (Name) Short Description License Download Link ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki Remarks
MediaPortal
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Advanced media center, or Home Theater PC software (HTPC). ARGUS TV provides add-on. Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum
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Windows Media Center with ARGUS TV Client Add-on to Windows Media Center to use ARGUS TV with WMC Freeware, GNU, GPL v3 ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Source Code & Downloads ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum

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XBMC with PVR Support (various platforms) Advanced media center, or Home Theater PC software (HTPC) with included ARGUS TV PVR add-on. Open Source / GNU ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Downloads ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum
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Watch and Stream Videos & Tools

Tool (Name) Short Description License Download Link ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki Remarks
Remote Potato
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Remote Potato is a light-weight server which stream your videos, music, pictures to Web Clients, iOS or Android Clients in various resolutions. Streams are created "on the fly" without prior lower-res-remuxing. Free, recently open source ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN WIKI INLINE.PNG Wiki Page Designed for WMC; ARGUS TV users need additional packages - see the Wiki page.
VLC
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VLC is a media player which supports live TV streaming of ARGUS TV Free Open-Source ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download - -


Guides, external EPG / XMLTV Grabber & related Tools

Tool (Name) Short Description License Download Link ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki Remarks
EPG Collector
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Grabs EPG from the broadcast stream, grabs many formats Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN WIKI INLINE.PNG Wiki Page -
Guide Enhancer A project that adds season and episode information to your guide programs in ARGUS TV Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum

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SwapCategory
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Helper to swap "Category" order in XMLTV Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download - -
TimeForTV Importer
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The program will make an event in your task manager and then download your XML file from ICN WEB INLINE.PNG http://www.timefor.tv at the time you specify Freeware ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Download from Post ICN FORUM INLINE.PNGForum -
WebGrab+Plus
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XMLTV grabber from various sites, flexible to set up and programmable; post-processing capable Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN FORUM INLINE.PNGForum
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XMLTV Enhancer
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Program to automatically pre-process and enhance XMLTV files with additional information for TV-Series using the TheTvDB data. Adds season numbering, description and a preview icon to the XMLTV file. Freeware Download from ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum Post ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum Run as a Service; configured through web interface.
XMLTV GUI
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Web based EPG "grabber" will download compatible .xml epg file Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN WIKI INLINE.PNG Wiki Page -


Maintenance

Tool (Name) Short Description License Download Link ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki Remarks
Batch Processor
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Tools to perform various tasks on the ARGUS TV database(s) Freeware ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Download from Post ICN WIKI INLINE.PNG Wiki Page

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CleanDirectory
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Helper for cleanup of left over files from ARGUS TV and/or ComSkip Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN FORUM INLINE.PNG Forum -


Other Tools

Tool (Name) Short Description License Download Link ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki Remarks
Comskip
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Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector for Windows. Many front-ends like XBMC read the output and then skip commercials. Comskip also has a Donator version which has additional capabilities. Freeware ICN WEB INLINE.PNG Download ICN WIKI INLINE.PNG Wiki Page Donator AND free version may now processes h.264 /MPEG-2 (HD) video.
MCE Standby Tool (MST)
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MCE Standby Tool is a utility to enable real standby functionality also on systems prior to W7. Also on W7 helpful (but not ultimately needed for standby functionality) as it enumbers the processes and applications which prevent your system from going into standby Free for private use ICN WEB INLINE.PNG MST Download - -

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