Supplementary free tools which may complement ARGUS TV
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Revision as of 15:41, 22 November 2012
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Preamble
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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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The following suggestions may NOT contain commercial or in any way restricted software. Only free software without any limitation of use may be listed. ARGUS TV can't grant any of them to be valid and working as described, so - please - handle with care. |
Front-Ends & Clients
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Please first take a deep look at 
Front-Ends & Clients on Main Page for mutually supported and wide-spread clients.
| Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | Discussion Forum within ARGUS TV | Remarks |
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 MediaPortal
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Advanced media center, or Home Theater PC software (HTPC). ARGUS TV provides add-on. | Freeware | http://www.team-mediaportal.com
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- | see ARGUS TV Wiki MediaPortal
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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 | Download
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- | see ARGUS TV Wiki Windows Media Center with ARGUS TV Client
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| XBMC with PVR Support | Advanced media center, or Home Theater PC software (HTPC) with ARGUS TV PVR add-on. | Open Source / GNU | Prebuild Versions with PVR Support
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- | see ARGUS TV Wiki XBMC with PVR Support |
Watch and Stream Videos & Tools
| Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | Discussion Forum within ARGUS TV | Remarks |
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| 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 | Product designed for WMC; ARGUS TV users need additional packages - see the Wiki page. | - | Wiki page: Remote Potato
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| VLC
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VLC is a media player which supports live TV streaming of ARGUS TV | Free Open-Source | http://www.videolan.org/vlc
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| WebGrab+Plus
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XMLTV grabber from various sites, flexible to set up and programmable; post-processing capable | Freeware | Servercare.nl
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- | see ARGUS TV Wiki WebGrab+Plus
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| SwapCategory
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Helper to swap "Category" order in XMLTV | Freeware | http://21x.eu/downloads/SwapCategory.html
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| EPG Collector
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Grabs EPG from the broadcast stream, grabs many formats | Freeware | http://sourceforge.net/projects/epgcollector
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see ARGUS TV Wiki EPG Collector
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| XMLTV GUI
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Web based EPG "grabber" will download compatible .xml epg file | Freeware | http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/xmltvgui_3.14.01W.exe
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see ARGUS TV Wiki XMLTV Gui
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Maintenance
| Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | Discussion Forum within ARGUS TV | Remarks |
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| CleanDirectory
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Helper for cleanup of left over files from ARGUS TV and/or ComSkip | Freeware | http://21x.eu/downloads/CleanDirectory.html
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Other Tools
| Tool (Name) | Short Description | License | Download Link | Discussion Forum within ARGUS TV | Remarks |
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| 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 | Freeware | Comskip Download
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| 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 | MST Download
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