Want to watch TV Shows online? Use TV Links
TV Links is a very comprehensive up to date website that offers links to hundreds of TV shows, movies, cartoons, anime, music videos and sport shows. The main url brings you to the listing of all available TV shows which start with all episodes of 24 and end with Zoey 101.
All popular shows like Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Star Gate, Star Trek, Desperate Housewives, The Sopranos, Criminal Minds, Alias and hundreds more are available with most if not all episodes a mouse click away. One little drawback is that several episodes have subtitles in different languages but the main language is English.
All shows load in a small popup and play immediately at least on my connection. All videos are hosted on the usual video hosting websites such as Youtube, Veoh and Dailymotion. Tv Links is updated frequently with new shows and broken episodes get replaced rather quickly, at least that is the case for the most popular shows.
The cartoons and anime categories hold several hundred TV shows. The same can be said for all the other categories. I think the movie category is the one that has most broken links of all categories.
Must be because they can be detected by searching for files above a certain file size only.
Update: TV Links may not be the same service, but it makes available TV shows online, at least for some users. The service lists upcoming TV shows as well as shows of the past, and links to services on the Internet where you can watch those shows online. These services are usually either country-restricted services such as Hulu, or subscription-restricted services for cable subscribers. While that may not get you far if you happen to live outside of the countries the shows are available in, it may help users from those countries finding the shows they want to watch online.
Update 2: TV Links redirects to TV Muse now. The service itself appears to have not been changed. You can still look up your favorite TV shows on the site, find out when they are on TV, and where you can stream them on the Internet.
The core difference to before however is that the site is only covering legitimate streaming services now. This means that the majority of them are limited to users from specific countries, or subscribers, and no one else.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?