I figured out how to stream the show on CCTV's own website, although their video player is very confusing to me. Here's what I have so far:
https://tv.cctv.com/live/cctvchild/index.shtml is the streaming page for CCTV-14, the children's channel.
This screenshot is slightly out of date because it's from last night, but clicking the date in the bottom-left corner will pop up 3 options, they'll be "[2 days ago]", "[1 day ago]", and "Today". (So, as of this writing, it'll be "Saturday", "Sunday", "Today".) Sometimes those buttons will actually jump you to the day, and sometimes they won't, I'm not sure why.
The other way I've found to change days is to click the left arrow below the timeline (circled in green) over and over until I hit midnight, then click on an empty spot to the right of that arrow. However, sometimes when I try to click on the timeline, it jumps me back to today at the selected time. I don't understand this, and I just eventually got where I needed to through sheer stubbornness.
Other relevant controls:
- Turning off the red toggle switch will disable the timeline and force you into watching whatever is "live" right now. For our purposes, we don't want this.
- The button next to the toggle is video quality, the options from top-to-bottom are "Ultra clear", "HD", "SD", "Smooth" and "Automatic".
- The next button is sound settings, the options from top-to-bottom are "Immersion (speakers)", "Immersion (headphones)" and "Original sound".
Despite the earlier advertised time of 20:30, Nezha did not air at that time for the last two nights, here are the times you need to seek to:
| 12/6 | 19:15 - 19:45 |
| 12/7 | 20:15 - 20:45 |
Something else weird about this video player is that it's using MY local time. Like, it's 1 AM Tuesday in China right now, and Monday's episode of Nezha should be available, but right now, the player is locked at whatever was airing at 13:00 Monday.
I hope this helps anyone that's curious about this series, but beyond that, I hope this helps ensure the series is captured in HD and hopefully fansubbed later down the line. (I can't seem to capture the raw stream files, although screen recording does work, I imagine someone more familiar with video production and/or gaming would know how to do that better than I can.) Getting the HD broadcast might be more preferable, because the streaming version appears to have more watermarks.