OpenTVOnDemand

Open source tool in Bash for online TV stream capturing.

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Description

The source code served as an example of how online TV system works, it is, by no means, a commercial grade product. It might contain errors or flaws, and it was created for demonstration purpose only.

OpenTVOnDemand supports most of the current major North America TV providers's full episode stream capturing. This script will likely not be updated in the future.

The following channels were supported by OpenTVOnDemand:

• A&E
• ABC
• BBC
• Bio
• Bravo
• CBS
• FOX
• FX
• GlobalTV
• Lifetime
• NBC
• SBS
• SyFy
• TheCW
• USA

IT SHOULD ONLY BE USE IF YOU HAVE THE OWNERSHIP OF THE DOWNLOADING CONTENTS. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT THOSE VIDEOS WHICH NEEDS LOGIN TO VIEW.

It currently support both Mac OS X (Darwin) and Linux. Howerver, some necessary depandencies must be installed for it to work.

For Mac OS X:

• Homebrew (ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)")
• GNU Core Utilities (via Homebrew, brew install coreutils)
• RTMPDump (via Homebrew, brew install rtmpdump)
• FFmpeg (via Homebrew, brew install ffmpeg)
• GNU parallel (via Homebrew, brew install parallel)
• jsawk (via Homebrew, brew reinstall readline --force then brew install jsawk)
• Terminal-Notifier (Optional, Xcode is needed for compiling. via Homebrew, brew install terminal-notifier)

For Linux:

• RTMPDump (sudo apt-get install rtmpdump)
• FFmpeg (sudo apt-get install ffmpeg)
• GNU parallel (sudo apt-get install parallel)
• jsawk (wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz && tar -zxvf js-1.7.0.tar.gz && cd js/src && make BUILD_OPT=1 -f Makefile.ref && make BUILD_OPT=1 JS_DIST=/usr/local -f Makefile.ref export && cd .. && cd .. && rm -rf js && curl -L http://github.com/micha/jsawk/raw/master/jsawk > jsawk && chmod 755 jsawk && mv jsawk /usr/local/bin/)

Changelog

v0.1:

• Initial release.

License

Copyright (C) 2014 Cai, Zhi-Wei.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.