Realization of graphical user interface for TV application electronic program guide

Abstract

Electronic program guide (EPG) is an application that provides information about current and upcoming events on all available channels to the digital television (DTV) users. This article presents design and implementation of one EPG application based on metadata from DTV transport stream (TS). The application is interactive and displays the data in Graphical User Interface (GUI). GUI is implemented using Qt framework while data obtaining and processing are realized in C/C++ programming languages. Target platform is Linux based system.