webtv - watch live TV

Script for TV-viewing-pleasure.

webtv shows you a list of tv-stations (if you don't give one on the command line). The list is shown using yad.

The selected stream is played with mpv or vlc, whichever is installed. If both are, mpv is preferred.

The list of stations is taken from the package radio_tv_stations.

usage: webtv [OPTIONS] [[-s] station]

     OPTIONS:
     -f|--fullscreen    start video fullscreen
     -h|--help          show this help screen
     -m|--mpv           use vlc (default if installed)
     -s|--station s     watch station s
     -v|--version       show version and exit
     -V|--vlc           use vlc instead of mpv (if installed)
     -z|--zap           don't exit after viewing a station
        --liststations  print list of available stations
                        (used for bash-completion)

Dependencies

On Arch Linux, all dependencies are automatically installed if you install webtv via makepkg -sic.

webtv checks on program start, if all needed tools are installed. If one is missing, webtv will complain.

Here is a list with the needed packages.

program	Arch package
radio_tv_stations	radio_tv_stations
mpv (recommended)	mpv
vlc (optional)	vlc
wmctrl (optional)	wmctrl
yad	yad