Roman Haefeli recently released two very handy shell scripts that let you watch and record TV through Wilmaa. All you need is mplayer and rtmpdump and, voilà, TV with hardware-acceleration, without any of the annoying and slow Flash player crap that Wilmaa throws at you.
This allows even slow computers such as netbooks to smoothly play these TV streams full-screen.
Check it out at http://github.com/reduzent/watchwilmaa
The script is released under GNU GPLv2, if you fork the project on GitHub and send pull requests for your improvements, I’m sure Roman will merge them.
Caveat: It might only work from Switzerland for now, I don’t know which countries can get Wilmaa.
oo, missed this – good call. I shall congratulate the man myself on monday..
He deserves handshakes, congratulations and all sorts of praise!
It’s a fantastic little script. I’d even still be happy with it if it fetched and displayed Wilmaa’s advertisements first. Only I think they’re in Flash or some other godawful format, so that won’t work, huh?
Anyhow. Add twice the quality and 5 times the channels (Channel 4 for example) and an mplayer-capable IP TV solution would be worth 10 Francs a month to me, if it worked exactly like Roman’s script