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Watch TV in interesting ways on Linux in Australia. And how to watch Australian TV overseas.

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Watching television online is very easy if you are an Australian. There are some very useful streams to watch television over the Internet. The steps described in this posting will get you started with streaming television online. https://securitronlinux.com/battlefield/stream-television-online-with-mpv-on-linux/. Use the command below to watch Seven television in MPV with the ASCII display. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Desktop] └──╼ ╼ … Read more

How to save your place in a movie when exiting MPV.

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Saving your place in a movie when exiting MPV is very easy, this would be very useful when watching a long film and you need to exit the player and watch some more later. Add this to the ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file. save-position-on-quitsave-position-on-quit This will allow the player to resume playback when you restart playing a movie … Read more

An example of recording TV with MPV on Linux.

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This is a sample command, I used this to record TV with MPV from a stream. This is quite problematic, but I managed to get this working on the example stream. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mpv https://c.mjh.nz/101002210221/ –stream-record=tv1.ts –demuxer-lavf-probe-info=yes [ffmpeg] hls demuxer: Can’t support the subtitle(uri: hdntl=exp=1607128378~acl=%2f*~data=hdntl~hmac=a731c5d7a64c0589edb0290b2e2f44e9c48f2dbb1cf2f564d3d0914ee3341922/index_7_0.m3u8) Video –vid=1 ‘bitrate 1910576’ (h264 1024×576 25.000fps) Video … Read more

Play a movie from one Linux machine with MPV over a network with SSHFS.

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SSH is amazing in that it can allow a user to access the resources of one machine from another over the network. But with fast gigabit Ethernet connections these days, playing movies from one machine from another is now possible. Install SSHFS on your machine. jason@jason-desktop:~/remote$ sudo apt install sshfsjason@jason-desktop:~/remote$ sudo apt install sshfs Create … Read more

Stream radio stations from Sydney over the Internet easily with mpv.

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There is an easy way to listen to Sydney radio stations over the Internet on Linux. Use the mpv media player. This can stream the radio stations with no effort. Copy the listing of radio stations to your terminal like this. 4.4 Mon Jun 08 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ wget -O- -q http://i.mjh.nz/au/Sydney/radio.pls4.4 Mon Jun 08 … Read more

How to get DVD playback working on Ubuntu. This is very easy.

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To get DVD playback working on Ubuntu, the libdvdcss library is required. This is easily installed and necessary to decode a DVD properly for playback. Install this package to prepare for installation. This also allows automated updates to the library. 4.4 Sat Feb 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo apt install libdvd-pkg4.4 Sat Feb 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth … Read more

Play movies with mpv and scale the output to a certain size.

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The mpv media player can scale the output, just as mplayer does. This can be useful. Use this parameter to scale the video. -vf scale=960:720-vf scale=960:720 This is how this is done. This will scale the output to 960×720 pixels. 4.4 Mon Jul 08 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mpv -vf scale=960:720 olr_2_5_controller.mp44.4 Mon Jul 08 jason@Yog-Sothoth … Read more

Listen to music in the terminal and some other nice Linux tricks.

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This nice command allows streaming some nice ambient drone music in the terminal with MPV. Very nice to listen to while doing other things. mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p"mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p" Play a Youtube video audio only, this is another way … Read more