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Re: TV Garden

#101

Post by esskay »

anjel wrote: post #71
phantomathkg wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

So the cable pirated TV to IPTV reflector streams are being re-pirated or maybe just Liberated?

I've not looked at it in a few months but fairly sure its not pirated, its just online streams of FTA channels. All the UK ones for example are are just the UK's free to air broadcasters and someones figured out the urls to the feeds they use on their websites and apps.

Lots of the US and CA ones look to be the same sort of situation. You'll find most wont work without a VPN as they are geo blocked.

Re: TV Garden

#102

Post by esskay »

pests wrote: post #63
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

I have a friend who purchased some sketchy IPTV service for $100/year. Basically all the cable and premium channels from around the world. Navigating the channels are difficult as there are many duplicates or all the local channels around the country. Interesting to watch the news in different areas and sometimes a little unreliable and probably illegal but it was a TIL for me too.

I had something similar a few years ago. I ended up having to write a little script to pull out just the channels I wanted as nothing could handle the 18 thousand stream options it provided (total insanity that its bundled up into 1 file like that in the first place but seems to be the norm for dodgy IPTV providers).

Nowadays theres better tools for the job. StreamMaster* for example can handle thousands of IPTV sources and let you organise them nicely into something that can be read by Plex, Jellyfin, etc.

*Sadly recently abandoned but still available on github.

Re: TV Garden

#104

Post by rom16384 »

dkh wrote: post #77
vivzkestrel wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe we need a podcast.garden now

Most [public] podcasts are registered in Apple's podcast registry, which is what most podcast apps with a global search/discovery feature queries, and why these apps can all turn up the same podcasts. There are also things like https://podbay.fm that put give it a more general web frontend. I suppose that the not public podcasts could be aggregated somewhere, but I'm less of a fan of that, and there's also some techn…

You may find the Podcast Index [1] project interesting, it tries to create an open index of all podcasts, and currently has 4.5M podcasts. It has a downloadable sqlite database and an API.

[1] https://podcastindex.org/

Re: TV Garden

#105

Post by netsharc »

temp0826 wrote: post #92

Feels like I got an inter-dimensional cable box from Rick&Morty

Isn't that what TikTok is, or Instagram real? Swipe up and it's something completely different.

Then again, the "algorithm"(TM) is geared to showing you what captures your attention in order to keep you watching and get those ad impressions out of you, so the videos end up being very same.

Also it's curious, a few days after that hurrican/flooding in a few months ago, a lot of the videos being shown were about houses being swept away in water. A few days ago a lot of the videos were of water falling off infinity pools and that collapsing skyscraper in Thailand (RIP).

Re: TV Garden

#107

Post by dkh »

rom16384 wrote: post #104
dkh wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most [public] podcasts are registered in Apple's podcast registry, which is what most podcast apps with a global search/discovery feature queries, and why these apps can all turn up the same podcasts. There are also things like https://podbay.fm that put give it a more general web frontend. I suppose that the not public podcasts could be aggregated somewhere, but I'm less of a fan of that, and there's also some techn…

You may find the Podcast Index [1] project interesting, it tries to create an open index of all podcasts, and currently has 4.5M podcasts. It has a downloadable sqlite database and an API. [1] https://podcastindex.org/

Haha, the most recently uploaded/indexed "episodes" of a "podcast" on this site are individual songs from what looks like a podcast feed of a radio show. Just kind of funny

Very cool project

Re: TV Garden

#108

Post by londons_explore »

Really notable that all the youtube feeds work and load fast, whereas all the other feeds are 50/50 if they work or not, and if they do load they're slow, laggy and bad quality.

Props to the youtube engineering team I guess!

Re: TV Garden

#109

Post by londons_explore »

keeperofdakeys wrote: post #72
hunter2_ wrote: post #57

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I never got into this aspect of networking, so I truly don't know what I'm talking about and wish someone will correct me, but on some level, IP does indeed have broadcast/multicast capabilities that cause the sender's egress traffic to remain independent of the number of recipients rather than being equal to the sum of recipients' ingress traffic, right? Does this only work downstream of the last router, and therefo…

> IP does indeed have broadcast/multicast capabilities that cause the sender's egress traffic to remain independent of the number of recipients rather than being equal to the sum of recipients' ingress traffic, right? Yes multicast, however you can't do multicast over the internet. In practise the technology is mainly used in production and enterprise scenarios (broadcast, signage, hotels, stadiums, etc). Instead big…

> however you can't do multicast over the internet

Some parts of the internet do actually support multicast. The BBC did IPTV via multicast to subscribers in the UK for a while.

Re: TV Garden

#110

Post by dkh »

dkh wrote: post #107
rom16384 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may find the Podcast Index [1] project interesting, it tries to create an open index of all podcasts, and currently has 4.5M podcasts. It has a downloadable sqlite database and an API. [1] https://podcastindex.org/

Haha, the most recently uploaded/indexed "episodes" of a "podcast" on this site are individual songs from what looks like a podcast feed of a radio show. Just kind of funny Very cool project

They seem to use this monetization "system"/philosophy: https://value4value.info

..which is yet again something I find both interesting and kind of funny (that they have "standardized" the philosophy of "pay what you want")

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