Smithsonian Channel

[j_cool]

If you run Euro VPN and follow this link:

Originally Posted by j_cool

https://watch.smithsonianchannel.com...erial-america/

you see these pages:





Those providers offer a lot more than one channel and cost a lot more than one channel.
I'll never be paying UK TV licence fees because I don't have TV set, so I limit myself here for the reason of my own.
I can log in to somewhere else and watch in some other way and I am sick and tired of it because I am forced to it since principles of life haven't changed since the day of down.

It is shocking to see how few views or viewers this topic, Smithsonian Channel, brings to this forum.
If It was about how to watch Indiana Jones in a dodgy way number of viewers would go in 6 digit numbers and attract attention of all worlds censorship and law enforcement.

I never heard of my5.tv and for a start I notice that it takes time to open with US VPN and opens quickly with euro IP.
I'll look later at that and any new information about main topic of this thread, Smithsonian Channel, brings quality of this thread and this forum to higher level.

Your post highlights imperfection and inadequacy of search engines and value of this forum and this thread as search engines return by statistics less than 1% of what you could find on the internet.
Try to search for something on Google for something you find on this forum and I don't find much and somehow this forum itself doesn't show up.

[Yelloworanges]

What's bad about my5 is that the selections are few and also the top quality is 468p.

On the other hand, therokuchannel (dot com) has 1080p for smithsonian and all the same content.

https://therokuchannel.roku.com/browse/w.ZRvMz6R3mBs8RgwJ74zzcY6v7QoykAc2B0gvz0G4HKvz34e6lWs2Y8YKZwJ3HDx/smithsonian-channel-plus

[cabulo]

Thanks yelloworanges.

on my5.tv I found VODs only.

That Roku looks good looking at it from US VPN.
Without VPN I get redirected to here:

https://therokuchannel.roku.com/enguard/en-gb

When I search for content, Smithsonian, I get no result.
They talk about their player or devices I wouldn't be interested to buy.
What they don't say in FAQ is: "Can I watch what I want to watch on my PC without Roku junk devices?"
I got lost on Roku website with too much told and explained nothing and result is I found nothing.

Your link is perfect match to what I would like to see in search engine and I hadn't seen it.
Subscription $5 for Smithsonian Channel Plus, Roku, but looks like only for US folk.
When you run US VPN here you find you can't see number of Euro sites I normaly see.
Euronews doesn't ask for money but if you run US VPN you can't see it money or no money.

That myustv.com looks to me like some university student's work for his final exam which
he made once and left. I had my eyes swollen looking on Yandex to find something like that
and next step will be to learn professional Google search techniques and keep on looking ...

Updates will follow.

Cheers.

[confused.com]

http://view.e.smithsoniannetworks.co...4d3e9b54a156b0

[j_cool]

There are few free VODs on Smithsonian site. They are very few and hard to find.
Here are some:

The Lost Tapes - LA Riots.mp4
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/d...son-1#la-riots

The Lost Tapes - Malcolm X.mp4
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/d...on-2#malcolm-x

The Lost Tapes - Son of Sam.mp4
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/v...st-tapes/59867

The Green Book - Guide to Freedom
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/d...ide-to-freedom

They are free at a time of this writting. When I made my first post in this thread all of Aerial America VODs were free to see, not now.
Smithsonian know how to make their business model and I watch what I can see for free, at least on their website.

It is a doodle to download these VODs. URLs can be found in browsers network monitor or with Telerik fiddler.
Here are few urls:

"https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/mobile_master.m3u8"
"https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/thegreensboro4_136657_072419_AAC64BOOS.m3u8"
"https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/thegreensboro4_136657_072419_700.m3u8"
"https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/thegreensboro4_136657_072419_4500.m3u8"


Only the first one is complete with sound and video and resolution is 1280x720.
Here is where streamlink commes handy, it makes it possible to choose between different resolutions.
My favourite resolution is 960x540.

C:\>streamlink https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/mobile_master.m3u8 540p
[cli][info] Found matching plugin hls for URL https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/mobile_master.m3u8
[cli][info] Available streams: 180p_alt2 (worst), 180p_alt, 180p, 224p_alt2, 224p_alt, 224p, 360p_alt2, 360p_alt, 360p, 540p_alt2, 540p_alt, 540p, 720p_alt2, 720p_alt, 720p, 1080p_alt2, 1080p_alt, 1080p (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 540p (hls-multi)
[cli][info] Starting player: C:\P\VLC\vlc.exe

C:\>streamlink https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/mobile_master.m3u8 540p -o thegreensboro4.mp4
[cli][info] Found matching plugin hls for URL https://hls-vod-cld.cdn1.smithsonianchannel.com/8e872c-thegreensboro4_136657/mobile_master.m3u8
[cli][info] Available streams: 180p_alt2 (worst), 180p_alt, 180p, 224p_alt2, 224p_alt, 224p, 360p_alt2, 360p_alt, 360p, 540p_alt2, 540p_alt, 540p, 720p_alt2, 720p_alt, 720p, 1080p_alt2, 1080p_alt, 1080p (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 540p (hls-multi)
[download][thegreensboro4.mp4] Written 11.3 MB (6s @ 1.6 MB/s)

Important: stream download won't work without US VPN.

Downloaded video can be made about 10% smaller without any loss of quality with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg.exe -i file.mp4 -c copy -movflags +faststart newfile.mp4

[confused.com]

http://myustv.com/watch/smithsonian-channel/

This video file cannot be played.(Error Code: 232011)


https://developer.jwplayer.com/jwpla...rors-reference

232011 A manifest request was made without proper crossdomain credentials.

[j_cool]

Well done, sysanin.


This is how it works:

$url="http://89.187.169.202:2200/EX/Smithsonian_FHD-uk/index.m3u8?token="
run('cmd.exe /c streamlink.exe --http-no-ssl-verify --player=mpv.exe hls://'& $url &' best & pause','',@SW_SHOW)

[cli][info] Found matching plugin hls for URL hls://http://89.187.169.202:2200/EX/Smithsonian_FHD-uk/index.m3u8?token=
[cli][info] Available streams: 1080p (worst, best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 1080p (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: mpv.exe
[cli][info] Player closed
[cli][info] Stream ended
[cli][info] Closing currently open stream...
Press any key to continue . . .

It is puzzling where from did you get index.m3u8.

This is from UK broadcast, different program than original US broadcast like on myustv.

https://tv24.co.uk/channel/smithsonian-channel-hd


Yeah, leave it puzzling. Let UK ( BBC ) TV licensing team look arround knocking on people's doors.

[j_cool]

quote

Originally Posted by sysanin

Try this

[confused.com]

http://194.76.186.38:7002/play/a02s

http://177.91.162.202:8000/play/Smithsonian/index.m3u8

[sysanin]

Found in Australian IPTV playlist :
tvg-name="Smithsonian Channel"
tvg-logo="https://i.imgur.com/weNdD7r.png"
group-title="AUSTRALIA"

https://smithsonianaus-samsungau.amagi.tv/playlist.m3u8

VPN is not needed