$ mediathek
3sat Der Kameramörder
alpha Space Night
ard Afrobeats - Rhythmus für die Metropolen der Welt
arte 28 Minuten
bayern Sex
bremen buten un binnen | regionalmagazin
deutschewelle Stimme Deutschlands)
hr Wunderschön! Urlaub in Nordholland
mdr MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE
ndr buten un binnen | regionalmagazin
one Agatha Christie - Mörderische Spiele
phoenix Die Gesten der Mächtigen
rbb Donna Leon - Verschwiegene Kanäle
sr Ein Fall von Liebe - Saubermänner
swr Ein Fall von Liebe - Saubermänner
tagesschau daten der woche
wdr Wunderschön! Slowenien - Alpen mit Meerblick
$ mediathek arte &
arte 28 Minuten
<mpv opens with a video stream>
In mpv, press 'q' to quit and 'f' to enter or leave fullscreen mode.
$ mediathek <tab><tab>
wdr arte deutschewelle mdr phoenix swr
alpha bayern hr ndr rbb tagesschau
ard bremen 3sat one sr
$ mediathek b<tab><tab>
bayern bremen
$ mediathek ba<tab>yern
Mediathek does not play geoblocked streams. This is not completely true: some streams which are geoblocked on the ARD mediathek website are actually not geoblocked and do nicely play in mediathek.
Mediathek plays streams which the ARD mediathek website fails playing with "Dieses Video kann leider nicht abgespielt werden. Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis. Qualitätsauswahl für externen Player". This happens very often with my international IP address and is main reason why this project exist.
What probably goes without saying ist that mediathek does not play "Die derzeigte Sendung ist aus rechtlichen Gründen nicht im Livestream verfügbar."
Mediathek supports running over https proxies (see Configuration). A proxy from Germany should work around geoblocked content.
bash (for autocompletion), lynx (for downloading broadcast titles), mpv (for displaying video streams).
commit 673c93a5e80307a3bcf8ad5105425cb61760864b was the last commit requiring youtube-dl and ffplay. They have been now replaced with mpv.
install all prerequisites
copy mediathek into your $PATH, say /opt/bin/
copy .mediathekrc into your $HOME directory
copy mediathekcompletion into /etc/bash_completion.d/
Alternatively, link these files from the cloned git repo into these three directories.
Note: the bashcompletion script is very helpful as it lists and auto-completes all stations. If it is not picked up automatically, then work around it by adding to your ~/.bashrc:
. /etc/bash_completion.d/mediathekcompletion
In ~/.mediathekrc, variable MEDIATHEK_QUALITY_DEFAULT sets the video width to 960 pixels. This variable is user changeable and can be set to higher or lower widths.
Environment variable MEDIATHEK_QUALITY takes precedence over the hardcoded value from ~/.mediathekrc, e.g.
$ MEDIATHEK_QUALITY=1280 mediathek ard
A https/ssl proxy can be configured via environment variable https_proxy. e.g.
$ https_proxy=127.0.0.1:4001 mediathek ard
For contribution guidelines, see CONTRIBUTING.md.