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Re: TV Garden

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Post by larfus »

vault wrote: post #4

Thanks. I could spend hours watching distant cultures. Their colours, environment, technical equipment... I saw some people in Somalia using DJI microphones, those that in the West are mainly used by YouTubers. I also see TVs that are normally subject to fees. I'm aware the FAQs say it's only public streams, but I fear this won't last long.

I think its inevitable death will be from all that unrestricted pornography. That being said, these kinds of projects usually hold up for quite some time.

Re: TV Garden

#42

Post by lxgr »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #39
lxgr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Non-public streams wouldn’t be published without DRM, or at least not as publicly retrievable (i.e. without any authentication) M3U playlists, would they?

Yes - for some of these you can stream if you know the URL, but you're only able to discover the URL after making an account.

If they contain some entropy, i.e. if there's path/parameter based bearer token authentication, sure.

https://iptv.example.com/720p.m3u8? I doubt you'll convince many courts of that being nonpublic.

Re: TV Garden

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Post by phantomathkg »

thundergolfer wrote: post #6

One of those projects that has me wondering what I was doing instead of building this. The end result is great, and the technical details seem like they'd be interesting. TIL about Internet Protocol TV: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

What you see in that repo is not truly true IPTV[0].

What you see in the repo is a lot of different HLS manifest[1], which in turn pointed to different questionable sources of all the OTT streams around the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_IPTV_Forum [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Re: TV Garden

#46

Post by hombre_fatal »

Can someone explain the economics of this?

So, there are a bunch of open http endpoints serving free video feeds and they don't care about bandwidth?

It's not like radio where you broadcast it and people passively receive the signal.

This is a great service for language practice, though. Wish it had a login + favorites system.

Re: TV Garden

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Post by hsuduebc2 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #46

Can someone explain the economics of this? So, there are a bunch of open http endpoints serving free video feeds and they don't care about bandwidth? It's not like radio where you broadcast it and people passively receive the signal. This is a great service for language practice, though. Wish it had a login + favorites system.

I wouldn't they don't care. It just wasn't problem for them. But basically yes. I blindly checked few of the TV's listed for my country and every one of them had live stream on Google publicly available somewhere.

But is this really a concern for them? If they are making money from advertisement this just add them justification for higher price of an ad.

Re: TV Garden

#49

Post by ThatMedicIsASpy »

mcflubbins wrote: post #24

Checks out. Clicked on a channel in the Philippines and immediately had to sit through 5 soap related commercials, precisely what I recall from my time there.

I have a hard time recalling the last time I watched ads outside of Cyberpunk 2077 where I watched, listened and actively search for them in my first hours.

But now I want to actively want to know how ads look all around the world.

Re: TV Garden

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Post by emmelaich »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #7

For me the site is incredibly snappy. Amazing. As in i clicked Australia, clicked ABC TV and it all loaded in milliseconds.

It's missing a few major channels, Seven and Nine afaics. Maybe they don't offer free iptv.
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