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chrippa / livestreamer

Command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice. No longer maintained, use streamlink or youtube-dl instead.
http://livestreamer.io/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Adding support for RTMP streams in the Livestream.com plugin #112

Open barretod opened 11 years ago

barretod commented 11 years ago

Hi @chrippa, I was wondering if you've noticed that some of streams for the livestream.com website seem to be missing. For example, if I look at the streams for http://livestream.com/ospreys, I only get two HLS streams (output pasted below), but I don't get any Flash ones. I assume this is a minor bug.

BTW, thanks for the great work!

{"250k": {"url": "http://ichunk.livestream.com/212.72/livestreamiphone/ospreys-livestream/chunklist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1893808093", "type": "hls"}, "worst": {"url": "http://ichunk.livestream.com/212.72/livestreamiphone/ospreys-livestream/chunklist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1893808093", "type": "hls"}, "best": {"url": "http://ichunk.livestream.com/212.72/livestreamiphone/ospreys-livestream/chunklist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1893808093", "type": "hls"}, "0.052k": {"url": "http://ichunk.livestream.com/212.72/livestreamiphone/ospreys-livestream/chunklist.m3u8?wowzaaudioonly&wowzasessionid=1893808093", "type": "hls"}}

chrippa commented 11 years ago

Yes, the livestream plugin only supports HLS streams for now. It is currently not possible to fetch the flash streams since the API to get the necessary parameters is using RTMP.

This is not something rtmpdump can help us with since it is only designed to download streams, not let us talk to an API in a programmatic way. There are a few RTMP implementations in Python, but they seem to not be compatible with both Python 2 and 3, which is a requirement for any code in Livestreamer.

barretod commented 11 years ago

I guess "new.livestream.com/wttg/live" is using the oldlivestream plugin then. Thanks for the quick response!