How to Install and Uninstall zvbi Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "zvbi" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install zvbi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                zvbi
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "zvbi" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall zvbi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                zvbi
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the zvbi package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: zvbi
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.2.35-18
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 561
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libzvbi0 (>= 0.2.35), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Filename: pool/universe/z/zvbi/zvbi_0.2.35-18_amd64.deb
Size: 176072
MD5sum: bdee9ac478705c4ec5d5b2a8ee3f4065
SHA1: 4175a35f6c3d45cc43685e835d4055005077da8a
SHA256: 29de49a83389685108ff60be3bf11e89aeaa82f1e86ca5a6b5f9bb7e0bdf4110
SHA512: fbbc48a270ce66a86a3687d7fd1d1493993013680cd34b32d851cce23e0c2f2e254cc8d1603cc161b1f3602851bc3786c0cbdb41839a01fc81931417227f2e1b
Homepage: http://zapping.sf.net/ZVBI
Description-en: Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) utilities
Television broadcasts use the VBI to transmit text such as closed captioning
(NTSC), Teletext (PAL/SECAM), and now Intercast and the ATVEC Internet
television encodings. The zvbi library is used to capture and decode raw
VBI data.
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This package contains the following utilities:
* zvbid, a proxy for VBI devices. It forwards VBI data streams to one or
more connected clients and manages channel change requests.
* zvbi-atsc-cc, a command-line utility that captures ATSC TV transmissions
using a Linux DVB device and decodes the enclosed Closed Caption data.
It can record both NTSC caption (EIA 608-B) and DTVCC caption (CEA 708-C).
* zvbi-chains, a wrapper which executes the VBI application given on the
command line while overloading several C library calls so that the
application can be forced to access VBI devices via the VBI proxy instead
of device files directly.
* zvbi-ntsc-cc, a command-line utility for decoding and capturing closed
captioning (CC) for NTSC and webtv.
Description-md5: e311bf3da9981caac31b2001079e77b6