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TVCatchup script
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With the World Cup approaching, I found it really annoying that there is no good way of watching live TV on N900 in the UK. Recorded content works well on iPlayer in the pop-out window, but live TV does not.
The obvious alternative is to use TVCatchup, who provide a lighter stream for the iPhone. N900 cannot play these streams out of the box because they use some non-standard playlist format, so I wrote a simple shell script that extracts the video stream and plays it with mplayer. For the script to work, you'll also need Firefox because I couldn't find a way to tell the built-in browser not to send the playlist to the Media Player. Save this script as /home/user/tvcatchup.sh: Code:
#!/bin/sh This is very experimental, so I won't give any guarantees, but it works on my phone. You need at least Mplayer and Firefox, and possibly something else too. There is a lot of room for improvement, so if anyone with more skill and experience wants to develop this further, I would encourage them to do so. EDIT: There is now a low quality stream available on the tvcatchup.com website, which works fine on N900. However, the quality is a bit lower, so this script may still be of use. Updated the script so that it no longer needs Firefox. It runs in fullscreen mode now - press q to exit. To install, save the attached tarball and run Code:
tar -xzvf tvcatchup.tar.gz -C /home/user |
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would be awesome if someone could package this up as a single download and install am really looking forward to world cup and this would be great
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or is it possible for you to post some step by step instructions on this cheers mate
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ddwwf1, if you work through the above post, you should find that it works fine.
Give it a go. |
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Followed the steps, and tried running the Tvcatchup App (well the shortcut created). Terminal launches but closes almost straight away.
I've tried running /home/user/tvcatchup.sh manually in terminal but I get a permission denied... Quote:
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this sounds great but sorry for being a nob but how do you save a script:o
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sorry to bump but this is an exciting development
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Tried the script - modified it to use Opera Mobile as the browser to download the playlist.. get the following:
Code:
~ $ sh tvcatchup.sh |
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mv /home/user/MyDocs/tvcatchup.sh /home/user/tvcatchup.sh |
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