Glastonbury Festival on your computer

[shantiq]

Your computer needs to be in the UK

then

get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC One" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"
get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC Two" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"
get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC Three" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"
get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC Four" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"

or place this in your .bashrc

alias BBC1='get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC One" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"'
alias BBC2='get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC Two" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"'
alias BBC3='get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC Three" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"'
alias BBC4='get_iplayer --stream --type=livetv "BBC Four" --player="mplayer -cache 512 -"'

then

. ~/.bashrc

use mpv if you have

then call from terminal


BBC1 , BBC2 etc

[coldraven]

Thanks, that is neat. Ooops! I don't have a TV license <goes back to viewing pre-recorded shows>

[shantiq]

... of which there are so many Cold One
The Waterboys were outofthisworld!!
ps and yes a licence

[coldraven]

Ah! Waterboys! I used to have one of their albums on vinyl (In about 1987) I must check out the iPlayer later. I'm having a "Life without Adobe Flash" discussion on another thread in the Cafe at the moment, it might be installed again by this evening.