Kaffeine is a full featured Multimedia-Player for KDE. By default it uses xine as backend.

Kaffeine is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Here are some key features of "Kaffeine":

· Timeshifting
· Instant record
· Electronic Program Guide
· On screen display

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· initial KDE4 release based on KDE4, QT4, Phonon and Solid
· much of the code base was rewritten;
· as a consequence not all features from old kaffeine are present yet
supports:
· KDE integration
· DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T and ATSC devices
· multiple devices and device hot plug
· scanning inclusive region-based DVB-T Autoscan
· audio stream and subtitle selection
· recordings inclusive instant record
· time shifting
· EPG (incomplete)
· audio CDs, video CDs and DVDs
· stuff you might miss: (working hard on them of course ;-)
· localization (see below), full EPG support, CICAM, playlist handling, OSD, S2API, broadcast, DBUS interface
· note: there will be a follow-up release in 1 - 1.5 months fixing important shortcomings and also giving time for translations
· note: KDE 4.2, Phonon 4.3 and QT 4.4 are required to build / run Kaffeine
· note: Kaffeine currently depends on phonon-xine for digital TV playback (due to the used phonon API)
· note: you have to reconfigure / rescan if you were using snapshots before