ChrisTV Lite 5.20

Publisher's Description:

ChrisTV PVR (Personal Video Recorder) brings TV on your PC with high quality image and sound. The software is designed to control analog TV Cards, Graphic Cards with Video Input (VIVO),Webcams, TV Cards with MPEG hardware encoder: Hauppauge PVR series, Leadtek PVR2000, ATI Ehome wonder and works with many video capture devices. Features include: Multituner support, TimeShifting, support for Windows Vista, AVI and MPEG2 recording, advanced recording settings, advanced scheduler, recording profiles, radio FM support, channel autoscan with fine tuning, support for DScaler deinterlace filter and FFDShow filter. With the trial edition, recordings from TitanTV listings limit themselves to 45 minutes.

The Lite version is free for non-commercial use.

ChrisTV has the following other editions available: ChrisTV Professional and ChrisTV Standard.

Latest Changes:

• We are glad to announce that starting with version 5.20 of ChrisTV PVR Professional you can broadcast your favorite TV shows, Movies, radio stations to your friends through local networks and through internet
• ChrisTV Broadcast feature offers 3 modes for your broadcast: Video & Audio, Video only, Audio only. You can also choose the frame size and video/audio bitrates depending on clients' internet connection bandwidth. For more details please visit this page
• We have improved support for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
• Fixed FFDShow settings load on ChrisTV launch
• Improved channel automatic scan for some TV cards
• Fixed zoom settings load issue that appeared in some cases under Windows Vista
• Minor optimization in the scheduler module
• Fixed sound initialization for some tv cards when using normal video renderer
• Other small fixes and improvements

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Lusono	Jun 28, 2007
Version:	5.05
Recently I was looking for a simple, free program that can display what's coming through my capture card, and I couldn't believe how hard it was to find one! There were some Windows Media Center clones, but they were complicated, and they wouldn't do a simple thing like just show me what's coming through my capture card. Then somehow I found ChrisTV Lite and my problem was solved! The viewer program that came with my capture card is junk, and it would crash and take the computer with it sometimes. I looked for open source alternatives, but came up basically empty-handed. Well, at least I found this freeware, even if it isn't open source. Another program I use, VirtualDub, is open source, and can display video from your capture card in capture mode, but it doesn't do a true fullscren (it still shows a border with some program functions). That's where ChrisTV comes in. I haven't tried the tuner on it, but for displaying my DVD player, VCR or video game system hooked up to my capture card, it works great and has a full screen mode that makes your monitor act just like a TV. ChrisTV Lite has a lot of features and it definitely works good enough to deserve a 5, especially for a free program! Please keep this free version going, and if you ever decide to stop it in any way, please make it open source so it can continue to be enjoyed and worked on!
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Reviewer:	paulm	Mar 9, 2007
Version:	5.00
As Hauppauge STILL HAVEN'T supported their analogue 881 Board for Vista, this application may finally give me access again to TV. Pity though that FM Radio isn't supported without the add-on option for the freeware version. *EDIT* The Hauppauge UK site has Vista driver downloads. The US site only has a non working beta from Nov 2006. May not have to use Chris TV after all?
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Reviewer:	Nikkie	Oct 27, 2006
Version:	4.95
Thanks for the free software!! This is all i needed too..
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Reviewer:	yagood	Dec 8, 2005
Version:	4.80
Lite version totally fits my needs + it's freeware = what else do I need? Great piece of software.
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