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

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

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

Getting hardware working on Linux versus Windows 8. This is frustrating.

I have just bought an old Kaiser Baas TV dongle and getting it to work on Windows is very frustrating. The website does not have drivers available and there are only dodgy driver download websites that have anything for download. Whereas on Linux, I just plug it and then run this command to scan for … Read more

How to read the time from a Digital TV card with Linux. This is easy.

To read the system time from a Digital TV transmission, the tuner card installed in your machine must firstly be tuned to a channel. Then execute this command in a terminal. localhost% dvbdate Mon Apr 17 01:15:33 2017localhost% dvbdate Mon Apr 17 01:15:33 2017 This will read the time from the digital TV transmission and … Read more

Linux command line in Mr Robot. Showing some accurate Linux usage.

Linux command line in Mr Robot. This directory listing is showing a few files under the /opt/2/task/2/fd1info directory. The fsociety file is the one he was looking for. This file is only 4096 bytes in size, so does not contain too much juicy information. Or does it? The screenshot below, shows a computer store in … Read more

Australian piracy to be curbed with large fines for illegal downloads of Game Of Thrones and other shows.

This is the beginning of the end for the Internet if the Attorney-General George Brandis gets his way. There are a large number of people downloading the latest episodes of Game Of Thrones, but this is a massively popular TV show. The battle at the wall was well worth watching. People want the episodes as … Read more

American people slowly dying.

No wonder that the Homeland is dying, slowly replaced with the new superpowers like China and India. The majority of television is dumbed down execrable pap like Jersey Shore and more and more reality shows than fleas on a heath-cropper. The television that I watched as a child was full of incredible educational shows about … Read more