Friday, 26 December 2008

I pay my TV license

Therefore, I'll want to listen to 5 Live tomorrow lunch time, when I'm in France, but United play Stoke.

This is more a little for me, but could be useful for other expats :)

1. Create a Socks5 proxy:
ssh -D 9999 your.remote.host

2. Build the tsocks library

3. Create a tsocks.conf file:
server = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 9999
server_type = 5

4. Launch a (simple) player with proxy support:
TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=`pwd`/tsocks.conf LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/libtsocks.so.1.8 mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live.asx

Voila. See also Bug 505456.
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 December 2008 at 14:57

    "Therefore, I'll want to listen to 5 Live tomorrow lunch time, when I'm in France, but United play Stoke."

    The BBC TV Licence is for the UK so it's rather silly to complain while in France lmao

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  2. Bastien Nocera26 December 2008 at 21:39

    How clever, TVLR. I pay a UK TV license, so I want to be able to watch UK TV wherever I could be. I don't see why you'd think it's silly to complain...

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  3. Anonymous27 December 2008 at 14:11

    > I pay a UK TV license, so I want to be able to watch UK TV wherever I could be
    That's your problem: a common but fairly obvious error. The two statements you made have no logical connection. Otherwise foreign visitors (who don't paya TV license fee) would not be allowed to watch UK TV.

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  4. Anonymous27 December 2008 at 18:44

    You should be to run "tsocks mplayer ..." rather than setting LD_PRELOAD, etc. by hand.

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  5. Anonymous30 December 2008 at 00:16

    The phrase "TV license" pains me greatly.

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  6. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 13:33

    >Otherwise foreign visitors (who don't paya TV license fee) would not be allowed to watch UK TV.
    That doesn't really make sense. The viewer doesn't have to pay the license, the person owning the receiver does. Even having your own television in a hotel doesn't count since it's highly likely your hotel is paying the fee for you. (unless you have a no-tv room in which case you'd be illegally watching TV if you brought your own there and managed to hook it up)

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  7. Anonymous8 June 2009 at 17:19

    TV Licence = Stealth TAX

    Why cant we buy TV`s that do not include BBC frequencies?

    You have had your fun BBC now fix it by advertising like the rest of the channels have to. Does ITV, Channel 4 or Channel 5 charge a stealth tax? NO.

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  8. Anonymous8 June 2009 at 17:21

    RCR UK has some good comments about the TV Licence.

    "Blogging Britain"

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  9. Bastien Nocera8 June 2009 at 17:37

    Anon: Unlike you, I'm happy paying for the TV license, given the great wealth of information, and ad-free TV viewing I get from it.

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