This project contains utils to watch streaming media from Colombia.
You need to install a video player software that supports (rtmp and mms streams), we recommend you to use VLC which is supported in most platforms.
Most of the instructions in this README have been tried only in linux.
Open VLC and choose the open network option and put the following URL: https://raw.github.com/iemejia/streamingcolombia/master/tvcolombia-static.m3u
Enjoy !
You can also play (and capture) individual streams from the individual rtmp channels of the playlist using rtmpdump, mplayer or ffplay e.g.
e.g. to play Señal Institucional, look for the URL and then use your favorite video player: vlc, ffplay, avplay, etc.
ffplay rtmp://cdns724ste1021.multistream.net/rtvclive/live-500
to capture Señal Institucional:
rtmpdump -o senalinstitucional.flv -r rtmp://cdns724ste1021.multistream.net/rtvclive/live-500
Many channels have dynamic streams who must be captured using the livestreamer utility. To do so you have to first install the program with:
pip install livestreamer
then you can execute the given command:
livestreamer URL QUALITY
You can find the list of valid commoands to reproduce the channels with livestreamer here.
Notice that you can replace the last word for quality with best or worst depending on your connection speed.
You can also watch and capture the video piping the stream to a file and reproducing it with vlc. Thanks to @rgamez for the tip.
livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tukanalchannel best -O | tee out.mp4 | vlc -
when you close vlc the recording stops and you can play your saved out.mp4 file.
No, but if you want to contribute you are welcome. On the other hand you can see the next question.
There is not a plugin for this project for the moment.
You can add the streaming address to XBMC, using the Live TV functionality or the live streams plugin.
I would love to have this project integrated into a nice XBMC plugin, but I dont have the time to do so for the moement. Again if you want to help to do this, please contact me and we can share the work.
Note that rhere is also an XBMC plugin for colombian TV that works only if you are part of the UNE network, you can find it here: TVColombia.
I am lazy but if you want to just do a pull request with the instructions in spanish, I will be glad to add them.
More details on development info and channel extraction can be found in the file DEVELOPMENT.md.
You need to install python 3 on your system, then execute:
python streaming-co m3u > playlist.m3u
and then open the file (playlist.m3u) with VLC.
The channels in this project are available freely in the Internet, we are not pirating or retransmitting anything, just repackaging official channels in a more convenient manner (with no flash or need of browsers).
This project includes exclusively TV Channels from Colombia, and it uses their 'official' source locations for streaming.