How can I watch TV on SMPlayer?

[compass]

Hi there,

There is an option in the drop-down menu: TV. How can I watch it? I don't know what to write there. If anybody can provide working example I will be pleased. There are a lot of channels on Internet with the online streaming, but no one URL works in SMPlayer. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Please, advice.

[rvm]

The TV and radio menus are intended for Linux, where mplayer has support for TV devices.

I even removed those menus once in the Windows version to avoid confusion but it seems there are people who use them to store online URLs, so I added them back.

Could you give a sample of URL that doesn't play in SMPlayer?

[compass]

For example this one: http://matchtv.ru/

It's an open chennal and you can see it live via browser, but on old machines it works slowly. SMPlayer works fast, but I don't know how to watch streams like that on it.

[rvm]

If you use SMPlayer with mpv and youtube-dl you can play videos from a lot of streaming sites, you can see here a list of all sites supported by youtube-dl:
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

However it seems that matchtv.ru is not supported.