televize 0.6.0

Script to play Czech Television (Česká televize) streams in custom player.

Script to play Czech Television (Česká televize) streams in custom video player.

Installation

Directly using pip:

pip install televize

Dependencies

• python >=3.5

• Any player which supports internet playlists. mpv is used by default.

• Other dependencies are listed in requirements.txt.

Usage

televize live 24  # CT24
televize live D  # CT:D
televize live sport  # CT-sport
televize ivysilani http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/11276561613-kosmo/
televize ivysilani http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/11276561613-kosmo/215512121020005-triumf

Complete usage is printed using –help argument:

televize --help

macOS

To open stream in a native player on macOS (e.g. VLC), use –player command open -a APP –args. For example:

televize --player "open -a VLC --args" live 24

Recommendations

A reload script https://github.com/4e6/mpv-reload is highly recommended for mpv.

Acknowledgement

Based on Perl scripts televize and ctstream from Petr Písař (http://xpisar.wz.cz).

Changelog

0.6.0 (2021-04-23)

• Support python 3.6-3.9.

• Restore certificate verification.

• Update README.

• Update settings for tests, static checks and CI.

• Resolve various warnings.

0.5

• Fix after ceskatelevize.cz switched to HTTPS.

• Fix PyPI description by using ReST for readme and changelog.

0.4

• Fix pypi upload

0.3

• Add support for “pořady” URLs.

• Fix live streams after CT update in April.

0.2

• Add –quality argument to select stream quality.

• Better exception handling.