Supplementary free tools which may complement ARGUS TV
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Front-Ends & Clients
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Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki | Remarks |
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MediaPortal Home Page |
Advanced media center, or Home Theater PC software (HTPC). ARGUS TV provides add-on. | Freeware | Download | Forum Wiki Page |
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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 | Source Code & Downloads | 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 | Downloads | Forum Wiki Page |
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Watch and Stream Videos & Tools
Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki | Remarks |
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Remote Potato Home Page |
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 | Download | Wiki Page | Designed for WMC; ARGUS TV users need additional packages - see the Wiki page. |
VLC Home Page |
VLC is a media player which supports live TV streaming of ARGUS TV | Free Open-Source | Download | - | - |
Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki | Remarks |
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EPG Collector Home Page |
Grabs EPG from the broadcast stream, grabs many formats | Freeware | Download | Wiki Page | - |
Guide Enhancer | A project that adds season and episode information to your guide programs in ARGUS TV | Freeware | Download | Forum |
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SwapCategory HomePage |
Helper to swap "Category" order in XMLTV | Freeware | Download | - | - |
TimeForTV Importer Home Page |
The program will make an event in your task manager and then download your XML file from http://www.timefor.tv at the time you specify | Freeware | Download from Post | Forum | - |
WebGrab+Plus Home Page |
XMLTV grabber from various sites, flexible to set up and programmable; post-processing capable | Freeware | Download | Forum Wiki Page |
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XMLTV Enhancer Home Page |
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 Forum Post | Forum | Run as a Service; configured through web interface. |
XMLTV GUI Home Page |
Web based EPG "grabber" will download compatible .xml epg file | Freeware | Download | Wiki Page | - |
Maintenance
Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki | Remarks |
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Batch Processor Home Page |
Tools to perform various tasks on the ARGUS TV database(s) | Freeware | Download from Post | Wiki Page |
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CleanDirectory Home Page |
Helper for cleanup of left over files from ARGUS TV and/or ComSkip | Freeware | Download | Forum | - |
Other Tools
Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | ARGUS TV Forum & Wiki | Remarks |
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Comskip Home Page |
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 | Download | Wiki Page | Donator AND free version may now processes h.264 /MPEG-2 (HD) video. |
MCE Standby Tool (MST) Home Page |
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 | MST Download | - | - |
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