mediathekview(1)

💖 mediathekview(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for MediathekView, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. it's a media center video browser, and yes, you're gonna want to sit down for this one. grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this together.

✨ NAME ✨

MediathekView — a media center video browser. that's it. that's the whole job description. she browses. she slays. 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

mediathekview [PATH TO CONFIGURATION] [OPTION...]

so you give her a path to a config if you're feeling spicy, and then whatever options your heart desires. simple as that, no cap.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea 🍵 — this app goes out and searches for all kinds of media center video content from the German television program. and when we say German television, we mean it: ARD, ZDF, Arte, 3Sat, MDR, ORF, SRF and honestly many more — she's got range. 👑

and the best part?? you can watch, download and even subscribe to any offered show. literally the full package. not me being obsessed with a piece of software but here we are 😭💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

every single one, bestie, no skips, no skimming. we respect the full list in this house. ✨

• -auto — automatically loads the list of films, manages all your subscriptions, and then closes the application. and yes, this even works on computers without a GUI (no X, no problem, she doesn't need the visual to be iconic). 🫶
• -fastauto — literally -auto but the film descriptions get omitted. this means less memory consumption and way better responsiveness of the application. especially useful for older hardware — your grandpa's laptop could never, but now it can. 🔥
• -DproxySet=(true|false) — enable or disable a proxy server. true or false, that's the vibe check. ✅
• -DproxyHost= — specify a host address to connect to a proxy server. tell her where the proxy is. 📍
• -DproxyPort= — specify a port number to connect to a proxy server. and now tell her which door. 🚪
• -Dswing.defaultlaf= — this one's for using a different appearance (a.k.a. look and feel) of the graphical user interface, but only if there isn't any option in the preferences specified by the user. so it's the fallback glow-up. an example may be: com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel for the GTK-system-theme. cute, right? 🎨
• -M — maximize window at startup. big. bold. taking up the whole screen like she owns it. because she does. 👑

heads up bestie: all options that start with a -D are general Java options. you can use them with every java application. so like, they're not even hers, she's just borrowing them and making them look good. 💅

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

okay let's see her in action:

mediathekview ~/television -auto

instead of using the default configuration in ~/.mediathek3, MediathekView accesses a custom configuration in ~/television, and the application is started without GUI. all subscriptions are managed, and finally the application quits itself. she did the work, she said goodbye, she left. no drama. 😌✨

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go check out her friends, they're all iconic too:

• flvstreamer (1)
• java (1)
• mpv (1)
• vlc (1)

and that's the whole manual, bestie!! 🎀🦋💖

version 13.2.1 — 18 Nov 2018 — yeah she's been out here serving since 2018 and she has not missed a single day. periodt. 💅✨