http://perso.club-internet.fr/hftom/kaxtv/KaxTV is a software desktop DVB player.
It uses Xine as software decoder, but does NOT make use of the xine dvb plugin.
KaxTV is based on Kaffeine, so you should be able to play nearly every audio/video file, including dvd.
Features :
Channels management, including network scan
Live
Time shifting
Instant recording
Timers
Current/next OSD
EPG
Pids filtering, so you can view a channel while recording another on the same transponder (or record several)
AC3
HDTV (with cpu/videocard able to play such bitrates/sizes)
