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54ac / stream-detector

A Firefox addon for keeping track of manifests used by various streaming protocols and downloading media files.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Add hlsdl as target #1

Closed yoshimo closed 4 years ago

yoshimo commented 4 years ago

In some cases https://github.com/selsta/hlsdl works where ffmpeg doesn't so it would be nice if you could output a commandline for it that includes proper values

54ac commented 4 years ago

I haven't heard of hlsdl before, but sure, why not.

54ac commented 4 years ago

Let me know if it works in v1.7.0.

yoshimo commented 4 years ago

Not quite as i expected.

The page itself has two alternative urls for the same video In the api call to the backend we can get hlsURl with an .m3u8 dashUrl with a .mpd manifest

The player for my browser seems to choose dash over hls and then the command breaks. Only the mpd files involved get copied to the clipboard without any application prefix.

Not sure how the bitmovin player decided the protocol that it will use and if we can get the hls tags regardless.

54ac commented 4 years ago

That's outside of the scope of the addon - it specifically targets the requests your browser does end up making, to ensure maximum compatibility.

That being said, back in the day I used to be able to force different protocols by spoofing the user agent - try changing your user agent to a different browser or even a different OS (Android, iOS).