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HLS from HTTP work, but from HTTPS not #425

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Using both MPC HC as well as Potplayer, both players utilizing LAV will 
properly (and excellently) play archivedVideo.m3u8 files containing "http" 
andresses, but when trying from the same TV station to play LiveBroadcast.m3u8, 
containing "https" addresses, both players fail. 

Anticipation: Somewhere in the code, it is searched for the string "http" only, 
forgetting the "https". Could this be a LAV bug, or should I ask in the MPC HC 
forums?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by c...@hdsoundlab.com on 30 Jan 2014 at 8:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
HTTPS is currently not supported in LAV, due to the lack of proper win32 SSL 
support in the ffmpeg library. Its something that can hopefully be fixed in the 
future, though.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2014 at 10:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
A follow up question: To my understanding, VLC is also based on the ffmpeg 
library, albeit perhaps a special version for VLC only. It is interesting in 
this regard that VLC is indeed able to stream HLS from a https server. I would 
like to understand how they have a achieved this. Would it be by creating a 
separate version of ffmpeg, or is this code in the VLC itself? Of course one 
would have to address VLC with a VLC question, but it it never the less very 
interesting if anyone here could make a comment or anticipation/guess. Maybe 
the same solution would be easy to implement in LAV?

Sidenote: But VLC lack compliance to a lot of GPU's, for example ATI HD3xxx, 
and thus, comparing a http (not https) stream, while MPC with LAV may impress 
us with 1-4 % cpu usage while also keeping a cool GPU (52 dgr Celius), VLC 
would escalate to +70% cpu usage and a GPU temp at 70 dgr Celcius, on the very 
same stream. That is quite a difference. (VLC is much better as soon as it is 
compliant with the GPU, though.)

Original comment by c...@hdsoundlab.com on 4 Feb 2014 at 7:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
One could make HTTPS work by adding external libraries that provide HTTPS 
support, however, I do not want to include any huge external libraries for 
this, hence no HTTPS support until a way is implemented to use the Windows 
HTTPS support.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2014 at 3:42