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

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

Windows 11 reveal stream embarrassing and glitchy.

The reveal stream for Windows 11 was embarrassing, this kept glitching and pausing. This is Microsoft in 2021? Useless at streaming and coding Windows. Most of Windows is legacy 32bit code that the current programmers do not even understand and cannot edit as the documentation has gone missing. So Windows 11 might still contain legacy … Read more

An example of recording TV with MPV on Linux.

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

Twitch advertisements are very annoying, this should really help out.

The ads on Twitch are very annoying when you are watching a stream. Even if you are using mpv to watch a stream, you get this annoying interruption. But if you are using uBlock Origin and frankerfacez installed, this will help. Then install this script. https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Paralyseradko/4647a238ac7410019bfd4abd27b530ec/raw/twitch2.js. Click uBlock Origin -> open the dashboard -> make … Read more

Stream television online with mpv on Linux.

The MPV media player can easily stream television online. There are a few TV streams here: http://i.mjh.nz/au/. Here is an example. ──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mpv https://i.mjh.nz/au/Sydney/tv.320203000301.m3u8──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mpv https://i.mjh.nz/au/Sydney/tv.320203000301.m3u8 This is to watch SBS in Sydney. The quality is perfect. This is a godsend. We should be able to stream any television … Read more