f1viewer

README

f1viewer

Table of Contents

• Installation
• FAQ
• Config
• Custom Commands
• Logs
• Credentials

Installation

Windows

1. Download and the latest release for Windows
2. Download MPV
   Note: MPV needs to be in the same folder as f1viewer or added to you PATH

macOS

• You can install f1viewer with Homebrew

  brew tap SoMuchForSubtlety/tap
  brew install SoMuchForSubtlety/tap/f1viewer
  

• Or download the binary directly

Debian and Ubuntu

Download the latest release .deb file and install it.

Fedora and openSUSE

Download the latest release .rpm file and install it.

Arch

Install the f1viewer AUR package.
Note: you have to intstall one of the secret store optional dependencies!

Any other Linux distribution

• Download the binary directly
• Install it with Homebrew as described in the macOS section.
• build it from source

  go get https://github.com/SoMuchForSubtlety/f1viewer
  

FAQ

f1viewer is not showing a live session / loading very slowly

This can happen if the F1TV servers are overloaded. There is nothing I can do to fix this. Start your stream as soon as possible at the start of the session and you can usually avoid this.

MPV is opening but I'm not getting audio

Please make sure you are using the latest version of MPV. If you use Windows please download it from here.

Config

When you first start f1viewer a boilerplate config is automatically generated. On Widows systems it's located in %AppData%\Roaming\f1viewer, on macOS in $HOME/Library/Application Support/f1viewer and on Linux in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/f1viewer or $HOME/.config/f1viewer.

The default config looks like this

{
	"live_retry_timeout": 60,
	"preferred_language": "en",
	"check_updates": true,
	"save_logs": true,
	"log_location": "",
	"custom_playback_options": [],
	"horizontal_layout": false,
	"tree_ratio": 1,
	"output_ratio": 1,
	"theme": {
		"background_color": "",
		"border_color": "",
		"category_node_color": "",
		"folder_node_color": "",
		"item_node_color": "",
		"action_node_color": "",
		"loading_color": "",
		"live_color": "",
		"update_color": "",
		"no_content_color": "",
		"info_color": "",
		"error_color": "",
		"terminal_accent_color": "",
		"terminal_text_color": ""
	}
}

• live_retry_timeout is the interval f1viewer looks for a live F1TV session seconds
• preferred_language is the language MPV is started with, so the correct audio track gets selected
• check_updates determines if F1TV should check GitHub for new versions
• save_logs determines if logs should be saved
• log_location can be used to set a custom log output folder
• custom_playback_options can be used to set custom commands, see Custom Commands for more info
• horizontal_layout can be used to switch the orientation from vertical to horizontal
• theme can be used to set custom colors for various UI elements. Please use standard hex RGB values in the format #FFFFFF or FFFFFF.
• tree_ratio and output_ratio can adjust the UI ratio. The values need to be intergers >= 1.

Custom Commands

You can execute custom commands, for example to launch a different player. These are set in the config under custom_playback_options. You can add as many as you want.

"custom_playback_options": [
	{
		"title": "download with ffmpeg",
		"command": ["ffmpeg", "-i", "$url", "-c", "copy", "$title.mp4"]
	},
	{
		"title": "create .strm file",
		"command": ["echo", "$url", ">$title.strm"]
	}
]

title is the title. It will appear next to the standard Play with MPV and Copy URL to clipboard.

command is where your command goes. It is saved as a list of args like in the examples above. Every argument should be a separate string! The following would be incorrect! ["ffmpeg", "-i $url", "-c copy", "$title.mp4"]

There are several placeholder variables you can use that will be replaced by f1viewer.

• $url: the content's URL
• $category: the content's category (eg. "Documentary")
• $season: the season name (eg. "2019 Formula 1 World Championship")
• $event: the event (eg. "Belgian Grand Prix")
• $session: the session (eg. "F1 Practice 3")
• $perspective: the perspective (eg. "Main Feed", "Kimi Räikkönen", etc.)
• $episode: the name of the episode (eg. "Chasing The Dream - Episode 1")
• $title: a formatted combination of $category, $season, $event , $session, $perspective and $episode depending on what is available for the given content. (eg. "2019 Formula 1 World Championship - Singapore Grand Prix - Race - Main Feed")

Note: $title has illegal characters removed so it can be used as a filename, the other variables are left unmodified.

If you have ideas for more variables feel free to open an issue.

Tip: To get Windows commands like echo, dir, etc. to work, you'll need to prepend them with "cmd", "/C", so for example ["echo", "hello"] turns into ["cmd", "/C", "echo", "hello"]

Logs

By default f1viewer saves all info and error messages to log files. Under Windows and macOS they are save in the same directory as the config file, on Linux they are saved to $HOME/.local/share/f1viewer/. The log folder can be changed in the config. Logs can also be turned off completely.

Credentials

Your login credentials for F1TV are not saved in the config file. On macOS they are stored in the keychain and on Windows the credential store is used. If you're using Linux, where they are saved depends on your distro. Generally Pass, Secret Service / GNOME Keyring and KWallet are supported. If it does not work on your distro or you encounter any problems please open an issue.