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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 No longer maintained, use streamlink or youtube-dl instead.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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YT Live Stream recording to file. Cannot play it (broken) #1543

Open blackjack4494 opened 7 years ago

blackjack4494 commented 7 years ago

So, I am recording a live stream (24/7) and write it to a file with -o filename. When I interrupt it (cause I do not know how to cut it in parts e.g. after one minute make a new file with new timecode in name) with ctrl-c and then copy the file from my ubuntu 16.04 server to my Win10 computer I am not able to play that file using various players vlc included. Anyone else having such problems or know how to solve them? I am not sure if the problem itself is the livestream which streams mp4. I tried to save the file as mp4 and flv both did not work. Hopefully it is just me who wrongly use the program than rather a problem with the recording itself.

scottbernstein-zz commented 7 years ago

This comes up at least once a week. Youtube changed the format of their video files to something which is not supported in VLC 2.0. If you upgrade to the VLC Nightly build of 3.0 it will play your videos.

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So, I am recording a live stream (24/7) and write it to a file with -o filename. When I interrupt it (cause I do not know how to cut it in parts e.g. after one minute make a new file with new timecode in name) with ctrl-c and then copy the file from my ubuntu 16.04 server to my Win10 computer I am not able to play that file using various players vlc included. Anyone else having such problems or know how to solve them? I am not sure if the problem itself is the livestream which streams mp4. I tried to save the file as mp4 and flv both did not work. Hopefully it is just me who wrongly use the program than rather a problem with the recording itself.

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blackjack4494 commented 7 years ago

Well I tried youtube-dl. And got it working. Maybe you have a look in their repo.

scottbernstein-zz commented 7 years ago

Youtube-dl has some built-in integration with ffmpeg to do file format conversions. That is not part of the design of Livestreamer. File format conversions or issues with players are left to the user to sort out on their own. Livestreamer is meant to capture the stream bit-for-bit and not do conversions.

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Well I tried youtube-dl. And got it working. Maybe you have a look in their repo.

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