Watch and listen to Japanese media

Radiko

https://github.com/jackyzy823/rajiko for your browser to listen outside of Japan

Television in mpv or vlc

Live

TV Asahi

https://mov3.co/tvasahi/

TV Tokyo

https://mov3.co/tvtokyo/

Fuji TV

https://fujitv4.mov3.co/hls/fujitv.m3u8

Hokkaido News 24

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xWPD8KDHUH8

JapaNews24

https://youtu.be/coYw-eVU0Ks

NHK G

https://nhk4.mov3.co/hls/nhk.m3u8

NTV

https://ntv4.mov3.co/hls/ntv.m3u8

Tokyo MX

https://mov3.co/tokyomx/

TBS

https://tbs3.mov3.co/hls/tbs.m3u8
https://tbs4.mov3.co/hls/tbs.m3u8

Use mpv's --no-initial-audio-sync option if you get an error about incorrect timestamps while opening a mov3 stream.

TBS's The Time and ラヴィット! live on JST weekday mornings, usually on one of these channels, mostly -03 and -04

https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs03
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs04
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs05

AU Pay Market

https://live.check.tv/live1/index.m3u8
Check WNI caster appearance schedule at https://gg.vern.cc/wn/segment/?n=au%20PAY
Browse stream thumbnails at https://jsfiddle.net/ykh46jz5/

Recordings

Nearly all regular news and variety shows

https://9tsu.cc/
By default, this site tries to redirect to sketchy sites on every click. Use a browser addon like NoScript, and enable JS only from 9tsu's domain. The site is perfectly safe and functional that way. All video links can be watched in browser or with mpv/vlc.

anon's site of links to WNI and AU Pay Market stream VODs, sortable by date or caster

https://gg.vern.cc/wn/
http://sennajlwmhtxixl2qgwlvuaongxly6flffuz4roemsabjshlnnxdbbid.onion/

FujiTV vods

https://fod.fujitv.co.jp/title/g9nu/g9nu110001/ -- 女子バレー
https://fod.fujitv.co.jp/genre/variety/H00047 -- アナウンサー

Tver

https://tver.jp/
Run mpv on any /episodes/ url like this https://tver.jp/episodes/epz5ohem6r
Episodes are available for a stated limited time. If you find one you want to keep, download it with yt-dlp. Don't forget to download Japanese subtitles when available.

Sometimes my ISP messes with the DNS caching of youtube stream servers or something and I end up getting choppy playback with long pauses on the WNL stream. The errors look like this:
[ffmpeg] tls: Error in the pull function.
[ffmpeg] tls: IO error: Connection reset by peer
(Buffering) AV: 01:55:25 / 01:55:26 (100%) A-V: -0.000 Cache: 0.0s
[ffmpeg] https: Cannot reuse HTTP connection for different host: rr2---sn-p5qddn7r.googlevideo.com:-1 != rr1---sn-p5qlsn7s.googlevideo.com/...
[ffmpeg/demuxer] hls: keepalive request failed for 'https://rr1---sn-p5qlsn7s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback/id/tzpRnl9trsE.1/itag/234/so/sgoap/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140/rqh/1/hls_chunk_host/rr1---sn-p5qlsn7s.googlevideo.com/playlist_duration/900/manifest_duration/900/vprv/1/99953638/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,goi,sgoap,rqh,playlist_duration,manifest_duration,vprv,playlist_host,initcwndbps,mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl/lsig/AM8Gb2swRgIhAMQxbLTW5LFb5jPqZD3jMcVrmf2qHU3wooQg6tsFlQCnAiEA_9G50skBR2QWsrTTzz7k3uGBWP2MmHxft' when opening url, retrying with new connection

Fix: run mpv with this option: --script-opts=ytdl_hook-use_manifests=yes. Not a single error message appears with this option. The mpv man-page says this option is set to "no" by default for performance reasons, but in this case, it's necessary.

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Pub: 24 Nov 2023 20:29 UTC
Edit: 15 May 2024 23:36 UTC
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