watch live TV in VLC/MPV/Mplayer etc (#UK IP & account over at http://tvcatchup.com required.) moar info > http://cirrusminor.info/2013/10/19/uk-linux-users-watch-tv-in-vlc-mplayer/

tv.sh

#!/bin/bash
clear
ua="BlackBerry9000/4.6.0.167 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102"
username="username from http://tvcatchup.com"   #before using this script you will need an acc at http://tvcatchup.com
password="password from http://tvcatchup.com"    #before using this script you will need an acc at http://tvcatchup.com
player="mpv"  #can edit to prefered player
dati=`wget -U "$ua" --no-check-certificate --save-cookies=cookie.txt -q --keep-session-cookies "http://m.tvcatchup.com" -O-`
hash=`echo "$dati" | grep -o "&hash=[^&]*" | cut -d"=" -f2`
list=`echo "$dati" | grep -o '<a href="#" onclick="javascript:loadChannel([^)]*' | cut -d'(' -f2 | sed "s#, '#) #g" | sed "s#'##g"`
check=`wget -U "$ua" --save-cookies=cookie.txt --load-cookies=cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" --header "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" --header "Referer: http://m.tvcatchup.com/" --post-data="username=${username}&hash=${hash}&password=${password}" "http://m.tvcatchup.com/?login=1" -q -O-`
if [ "$check" != "success" ]; then
rm cookie.txt
echo "There's a error with the login form. Check your account information !"
sleep 5
exit 1
fi
while [ -z "$x" ]; do
clear
echo "Channels list:"
echo ""
echo "$list"
echo ""
echo -n "Choose a channel or press x to exit: "
read num
if [ "$num" == "x" ]; then
rm cookie.txt
clear
exit 0
fi
url=`wget -U "$ua" --load-cookies=cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate "http://m.tvcatchup.com/?chan=$num" -O- 2>&1 | grep -o "rtsp://[^ ]*" | sed -n "1p"`
clear
echo "Start of streaming in progress..."
$player "$url" 2>/dev/null
done