# Kaffeine User's Manual

`Kaffeine`

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`kaffeine`

A media player by KDE with digital TV support

    kaffeine
    -d, --debug
    --tempfile
    -f, --fullscreen
    --audiocd
    --videocd
    --dvd
    --dumpdvb
    --channel name / number
    --tv channel
    --lastchannel
    file

## Description

Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has user-friendly interface, so that even first time users can start immediately playing their movies: from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file.

Kaffeine uses libVLC as video/audio play backend.

## Options

`-d` `--debug`

- Enable all debug messages. Please notice that Kaffeine also allows fine-tuning debug messages, by enabling messages per category, by using the environment var:

  QT_LOGGING_RULES=kaffeine.category.debug=true

  where category can be:

  `cam`

- for dvb CAM logs

`dev`

- for dvb device and libdvbv5 logs

`dvbsi`

- for dvb MPEG-TS SI parsing logs

`epg`

- for dvb EPG logs

`dvb`

- for other dvb logs

`config`

- for configuration logs

`mediawidget`

- for media widget logs

`playlist`

- for playlist logs

`sql`

- for SQL lite logs

`vlc`

- for libVlc logs

`--tempfile`

- The files/URLs opened by the application will be deleted after use

`-f` `--fullscreen`

- Start in full screen mode

`--audiocd`

- Play Audio CD

`--videocd`

- Play Video CD

`--dvd`

- Play DVD

`--dumpdvb`

- Dump dvb data (debug option)

`--channel` `name` / `number`

- Play TV channel

`--tv` `channel`

- (deprecated option)

`--lastchannel`

- Play last tuned TV channel

``file``

- Files or URLs to play

## Files

Kaffeine uses the file `scanfile.dvb` with a list of known channels per locality and per Satellite (for DVB-S).

When either new channels are added on some City, or when new Satellite beams are added, which are not available in Kaffeine, either use dvbv5-scan or w_scan to generate a new file (in the latter case, converted to the proper format using dvb-format-convert), and submit it to linux-media@vger.kernel.org, with the subject [PATCH] dtv-scan-tables: `some description`. The new patch will be added to `scanfile.dvb` and the updated file will be available to be updated from the Internet in the Kaffeine application.

## See Also

- More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kaffeine (either enter this &URL; into &konqueror;, or run ``khelpcenter` `help:/kaffeine``).
- kf5options(7)
- qt5options(7)
- dvbv5-scan(1)
- w-scan(1)
- There is also further information available at the Kaffeine Page

## Authors

To list the authors of Kaffeine use ``kaffeine` `--author`` in a terminal.