Global IP TV News Panel for WoofCE Pups:-New version 31st March 2025

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:13 am

Reserved:

keniv · Post by **keniv** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:51 pm

@ETP

Do you wish to test a pre-release version of the MK6 prior to the actual release?

Yes I'm happy to test. Let me know when your ready.

Regards,

Ken

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:02 pm

keniv wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:51 pm
@ETP

Do you wish to test a pre-release version of the MK6 prior to the actual release?

Yes I'm happy to test. Let me know when your ready.

Regards,

Ken

Thanks Ken,
Please see pm.

keniv · Post by **keniv** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:20 pm

Hi Steve,
Have got your pm and have replied. I'll start testing tomorrow.

Regards,

Ken.

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:38 pm

New release Today:
Please see original post in this thread for details & latest MK8 pet.

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:51 pm

All the 10 channels are working even at the same time. Thanks ETP!

Clarity · Post by **Clarity** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 6:32 pm

MPV is installed from PPM and runs without a Menu selector.

: MPV on desktop.jpg (7.82 KiB) Viewed 4909 times

I cannot find this Menu entry after running the PET on a FossaPUP64.

Question
Does the PET install a Menu entry?

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:37 pm

Hi Clarity,

MPV is primarily a command line player but does have a simple pseudo-gui that is purely drag and drop.
There is no menu on the gui but once playing something a simple controller appears at the bottom of the
window when you mouse over it. In addition to video files & URLs you can also drop a playlist on it such
as an .m3u
Your screenshot shows the pseudo gui. The pet creates a JWM menu entry to display the TV Panel.

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:51 pm

Hello, Clarity.
I tried it on FossaPUP64 9.5 and it works: A tv panel icon will appear on your Desktop menu after the pet is installed.

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 6:21 am

@ETP

I could position a maximum of 9 channels at 240p resolution on my desktop.

next question: How could I launch the positioned 9-channel panel by one click on the desktop menu?

Thanks and best regards,
Reynaldo

MochiMoppel · Post by **MochiMoppel** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:36 am

bugnaw333 wrote: Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:51 pm
I tried it on FossaPUP64 9.5 and it works

I tested the previous version in a pristine Fossapup and it didn't work. Apparently it requires youtube-dl, and as this is not installed in FP I installed a pet via PPM, but this didn't work either. Received error

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root# mpv https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/english/cgtn-news.m3u8
[ffmpeg] tcp: Failed to resolve hostname news.cgtn.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
Failed to open https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/english/cgtn-news.m3u8.
[ytdl_hook] ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution> (caused by URLError(gaierror(-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'))) 
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error ocurred

Is this issue solved? Why is youtube-dl involved anyway when retrieving a m3u8 playlist? A few channels worked though, e.g. CNN.

I admit that I have no clue how mpv works. Didn't even know what it is as it's not installed in my distro and I never noticed it in other distros. Never used youtube-dl either, so I'm a bit in the dark here.

some1 · Post by **some1** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:39 am

mpv - is a commandline mediaplayer - often used as the backbone for GUI-apps, f.x SMplayer (?)

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:20 pm

bugnaw333 wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 6:21 am
@ETP

I could position a maximum of 9 channels at 240p resolution on my desktop.

next question: How could I launch the positioned 9-channel panel by one click on the desktop menu?

Thanks and best regards,
Reynaldo

Hi Reynaldo,
Tomorrow I will create an additional custom script to do that.

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:49 pm

MochiMoppel wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:36 am
bugnaw333 wrote: Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:51 pm
I tried it on FossaPUP64 9.5 and it works
I tested the previous version in a pristine Fossapup and it didn't work. Apparently it requires youtube-dl, and as this is not installed in FP I installed a pet via PPM, but this didn't work either. Received error
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root# mpv https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/english/cgtn-news.m3u8
[ffmpeg] tcp: Failed to resolve hostname news.cgtn.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
Failed to open https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/english/cgtn-news.m3u8.
[ytdl_hook] ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution> (caused by URLError(gaierror(-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'))) 
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error ocurred 
Is this issue solved? Why is youtube-dl involved anyway when retrieving a m3u8 playlist? A few channels worked though, e.g. CNN.

I admit that I have no clue how mpv works. Didn't even know what it is as it's not installed in my distro and I never noticed it in other distros. Never used youtube-dl either, so I'm a bit in the dark here.

Hi MochiMoppel,
These channels are a mix of m3u8 and youtube hosted links. Sometimes a failure of another kind can also result in a spurious ytdl-hook error.
I would take your message at face value i.e. a temporary DNS resolution error.
You do however need youtube-dl for youtube hosted channels.
Please see this post earlier in this thread and the link to the required package.

viewtopic.php?p=51593#p51593

oldaolgeezer · Post by **oldaolgeezer** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:12 pm

Re: Global IP TV Panel for WoofCE Pups:-New version 8th Oct 2022

Hi MochiMoppel

I tried Global IP TV Panel on FossaPUP64 9.5 and it works for me too.

Note: I remember seeing a caution from ETP that a somewhat newer version of youtube-dl
was needed:

Thus, I downloaded and installed the version named: youtube-dl-2021.12.17
from ETP's: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

ls -la /usr/bin/youtube-dl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 988 Dec 19 2021 /usr/bin/youtube-dl

I've used PPM to uninstall ETP's previous version: mk4 or mk5 pet
(I've been following ETP's versions since mk2) and ETP's mk8 pet was then installed.
(I don't believe that I bothered to uninstall nor then re-install youtube-dl-2021.12.17)

After ending my Global IP TV Panel test, I tried, in a terminal, running just your problem command from your post:
mpv https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/eng ... -news.m3u8

some messages appeared in the terminal window, but mpv opened a new window with the cgtn video and sound played !

perhaps some differences (from installing other software) are buried
within Python3 are an issue for some of us.

Hope this helps.

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:13 am

ETP wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:20 pm
bugnaw333 wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 6:21 am
@ETP

I could position a maximum of 9 channels at 240p resolution on my desktop.

next question: How could I launch the positioned 9-channel panel by one click on the desktop menu?

Thanks and best regards,
Reynaldo

Hi Reynaldo,
Tomorrow I will create an additional custom script to do that.

The attached pet contains a 10 channel custom launcher to try with your modified channel launcher scripts.
The France24 script is rather unique and is not included. (It can still be launched from the IP TV Panel.)

Briefly the 9 channels are launched sequentially in panel order starting with CA Global news and
ending with Euro News. For each channel the video will start followed by 2 to 5 seconds of audio.
That audio will then mute and the next channel will launch. The audio will not be muted on the final
Euro News channel. To select one of the other 8 channels first press m to mute Euro news then left
click the desired channel window. Press m to enable audio on that channel. A fast double left click will toggle
that channel between windowed and full screen operation.
The pet contains the following:
.
├── pet.specs
├── root
│   └── noob
│   └── multidisplay
└── usr
└── share
├── applications
│   └── multitv.desktop
└── pixmaps
└── tv.png

6 directories, 4 files
Installation:

1. Download & install the pet. (A new "Multi TV" item will appear on the JWM Multimedia menu)

2. Using Rox filer navigate to /usr/share/applications and drag the multitv.desktop file onto your desktop.
If you have not already done so, also drag the tvpanel.desktop file onto the desktop.

3. Right click each of the desktop icons to edit the text beneath to read Multi and Panel.

Notes:

It is important that once the multi display is triggered that you allow it to run it's course and that you do not
launch any other windows of any type until it has finished.

This add-on can be used without changing the channel launcher scripts. In which case the 9 channels will
stack up on top of each other finishing with the last one launched (Euro) visible with audio playing.
To select one of the 8 hidden running muted channels beneath it, first press m to mute Euro, then hold down the
Alt key and press TAB to cycle through them. Stop pressing TAB when you reach the desired channel and
press m to toggle on the audio.

EDIT: 28th Nov 2022
The latest improved V2 pet is now attached. It launches all 10 channels sequentially and gives about
4 seconds of audio for each channel before muting and moving on to launch the next channel.

EDIT: 9th October 2023
The latest 2023V2 pet is now attached to complement the latest TV Panel pet 2023MK5 that was issued on 9th October 2023.
.
EDIT: 5th December 2023
The latest 2023V3 pet is now attached to complement the latest TV Panel pet 2023MK7 that was issued on 5th December 2023.

EDIT: 2nd November 2024
The latest 2024V1 pet is now attached to complement the latest TV Panel pet 2024MK9 that was issued on 2nd November 2024.

EDIT: 12th November 2024
I have re-uploaded the attached 2024VI pet having corrected a typo on France24. The timing of the launch of each channel
has also been changed such that the whole process is smoother.

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:33 pm

@ETP
Got it!
It works great and I love it! Thanks.
Yes, I could launch and mute France24 from my modified IP TV channel panel.

Best regards,
Reynaldo

MochiMoppel · Post by **MochiMoppel** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:11 am

@oldaolgeezer @ETP Thanks for the reply. I tried Fossapup again with the youtube-dl version you mentioned. This time everything works - except CGTN. Don't know what's wrong, but I don't really care as I can access CGTN faster via their YouTube stream.

On my old Athlon desktop PC the quality is really excellent. Running 2 channels at the same time is problematic and can result in drop outs, running 9 windows is out of the question

Since my Slacko5.6 is 32bit and hasn't mpv installed, I was looking for a pet in PPM or in the forum but found nothing. I then tried Xenial 7.5 , which does have mpv installed. No luck with youtube-dl, but with small changes of the scripts those channels that do not access YouTube work OK. For example when removing the --hwdec=auto-safe parameter from the CNN script it works. That's certainly due to the fact that Xenial uses the outdated mpv version 0.14.0 which doesn't understand newer parameters.

One question regarding the m3u8 playlists. Is this an official and approved way to access them? When I see a URL like https://abc-iview-mediapackagestreams-2.akamaized.net/out/v1/6e1cc6d25ec0480ea099a5399d73bc4b/index.m3u8 I doesn't look like a file a user is supposed to access directly. I remember that years ago I did a similar thing. Retrieved the playlists from the HTML source code of a TV station to bypass their website, but the address changed from time to time and finally I gave up because it was too much hassle. I assume that Video IDs of YouTube channels are more stable - if they exist, Ironically American news channels seldom stream via YouTube, but China does

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:28 pm

HI MochiMoppel,

There are no copyright issues with streamed newscast services of any type or origin and
they are all free of charge.

Running 9 or 10 channels simultaneously eats into RAM. One could get away with 3GB but
I would recommend a minimum of 4GB together with a swap file or partition of the same size.
That would allow room for browsers and email clients to also run.
If running the Multi_TV_Display.pet add-on a strong processor is also needed but the load can be reduced
by commenting out channels in the script and just running 2 or 4 of your favourites.
That add-on is very much a custom niche requirement.

BarryK · Post by **BarryK** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 11:35 pm

Here is a script to download the latest youtube-dl:

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#!/bin/sh
curl -L https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o ./youtube-dlNEW
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
 rm -f youtube-dlNEW
fi
if [ ! -s youtube-dlNEW ];then
 rm -f youtube-dlNEW
fi
if [ -e youtube-dlNEW ];then
 mv -f youtube-dlNEW /usr/bin/youtube-dl
 chmod 755 /usr/bin/youtube-dl
fi

YouTube regularly breaks youtube-dl, and the youtube-dl developers regularly fix it.
So you need the latest. I just use that script whenever build a new release of EasyOS, simpler than trying to keep a PET up to date.

MochiMoppel · Post by **MochiMoppel** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:32 am

BarryK wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 11:35 pm
Here is a script to download the latest youtube-dl:

Great
Script worked for me after fixing. Finished with an error:

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curl: (60) server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none

So for me the command must be
curl -Lk https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o ./youtube-dlNEW
The -k option bypasses the certificate verification

The downloaded binary works fine in Xenial 7.5 ( unlike the pet youtube-dl_2021.12.17-1_all.deb ).

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:17 pm

@ETP
I got it all on my old HP EliteDesk 800 G1 USDT

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:40 pm

bugnaw333 wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:17 pm
@ETP
I got it all on my old HP EliteDesk 800 G1 USDT

Hi bugnaw33,
That looks great. I guess you got your calculator out
In any event you have accomplished your mission.
Here is a video which provides a tour of the panel then a launch of all the channels with the optional add-on pet.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Nf4FahpGtHNF9z6f6
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bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:13 am

That looks great. I guess you got your calculator out

I cheated...
I never played the modified line 12 script you made for me, only the orig script by changing the geometry % values and autofit resolution.

Here is a video which provides a tour of the panel then a launch of all the channels with the optional add-on pet.

By the way, I like the optional pet on video stats.

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:48 pm

@ETP

It's great that you have made this app and that it has been used by members.

This is very tongue in cheek ............... had you considered a FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022?

I did see an article on the Evening Standard that said both the BBC and ITV will be streaming football matches.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba ... 92838.html

I would imagine other countries would follow suit.

It's not a genuine request from me!!

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:29 am

at 320x240 resolution

bugnaw333 · Post by **bugnaw333** » Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:26 pm

@Jasper

I did see an article on the Evening Standard that said both the BBC and ITV will be streaming football matches.

you can also watch here: https://9goal.tv/?ref=DecWC

Best regards.

MochiMoppel · Post by **MochiMoppel** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:15 am

bugnaw333 wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:26 pm
you can also watch here: https://9goal.tv/?ref=DecWC

Thanks. Unlike the geo-restricted BBC/ITV streams this works here in Japan.

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 1:35 pm

Thanks for the link @bugnaw333

ETP · Post by **ETP** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 7:28 pm

New release Today:
Please see original post in this thread for details & latest MK9 pet.

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