Voor de linux en *BSD gebruikers is van het programma xawtv versie 3.81 uitgekomen. Het programma wordt als volgt beschreven:
xawtv started as TV application for the bttv driver, because the Motif-based "xtvscreen" was the only TV application at this time.Alot has changed since. The bttv driver switched over to the new video4linux interface. Xawtv is'nt a single application any more, it is a small suite of video4linux related software. xawtv can handle both v4l1 and v4l2 interfaces. It does also support the Xvideo extention (XFree86 4.0) and the FreeBSD/OpenBSD bktr driver.[break]Het changelog meldt ons de volgende veranderingen:[/break]Changes from 3.80 to 3.81
- even more compile fixes.
- fixed some core dumps (freqtab changes init bugs in fbtv + ttv).
- new config option for webcam (times=, much like once).
