Does remote_method() work correctly?

[brachna]

It's more than likely that I'm doing something terribly wrong, but is remote_method() working fine?

channel = "yourchannel"
ip = socket.gethostbyname( "x" + channel + "x.e.channel.livestream.com" )
conn = librtmp.RTMP( "rtmp://" + ip + ":80" )
conn.connect()
# conn.connected returns True
func = conn.remote_method( "getCluster3", block=True )
response = func()

I get: librtmp.exceptions.RTMPError: Failed to read packet

I must be making wrong connection, but there are no problems with it, judging by conn.connected property.

[chrippa]

If you grab the result from the connect packet:

r = conn.connect().result()
print(r)

You'll notice that there was a connection related error. Currently there is no attempt to read a packet after connect and this should probably be changed to raise a error in .connect() instead.

[brachna]

I made successful connection judging by resulting AMF I got. Response contains trackid that should be used for getCluster3 method. The only thing I skipped is viewerId parameter in obj dictionary (might be a problem?).

channel = "yourchannel"

obj = dict()
obj.update( { "browser" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36",  "referrerUrl" : "", "devKey" : "GO2kKNTS471iv-G6HNWVS0LmuTRQfhkeRkW6v7vb9i4YDXmFk_8_2SH15O-gWk9T-gOnI17jx1hmGfrOI_OlTNMle-U1FTclV5B4bqXn3yM", "os" : "Windows 7", "embedUrl" : "http://www.livestream.com/" + channel, "version" : "WIN 11,9,900,117" } )

data = [ "player", None, "instance390", "", None, obj, "password", 197377, True ]
url = "rtmp://x" + channel + "x.e.channel.livestream.com/mogulus-edge/" + channel
page = "http://www.livestream.com/embed/" + channel

conn = librtmp.RTMP( url, connect_data=data, app="mogulus-edge/"+channel, flashver="WIN 11,9,900,117", swfurl="http://cdn.livestream.com/chromelessPlayer/v21/playerapi.swf", pageurl=page )

amf = conn.connect().result()
trackid = amf.get( "application" )[1][0].get( "trackId" )  
func = conn.remote_method( "getCluster3", block=True, transaction_id=3 )
response = func( trackid )
print( str( response ) )

I get "{}" as a response... getServerTimestamp() results in empty amf also. No clear errors, just nothing.

[chrippa]

Hmm, that's odd. I tried your code and it works for me.

Even if I modify it to remove some of the parameters it works. Output from this script is:

1.38410958749e+12
[{u'uri': u'rtmp://212-47.livestream.com', u'zone': u'origin-zone', u'streamId': u'tv_zenica_live_b67e5ad4-dfb4-4e5a-a664-4fe3f43e77c7'}, {u'probability': 1.0, u'uri': u'rtmp://212-68.livestream.com', u'zone': u'dvlabs'}]

[brachna]

Got it. The problem was that I used mine librtmp.dll (compiled with KSV patch). librtmp.dll provided by KSV also didn't work. After I used librtmp.dll compiled by you it did worked. I wonder what can be the reason for this. Do you compile librtmp with or without KSV patch?

Anyway thank you. I'm gonna continue testing tomorrow.

[chrippa]

My build is built from the official Git repo. It seems the KSV patch breaks something, but it's a large patch and I don't plan on tracking down what could be the cause. I updated the README to mention that only the official version is supported.

[brachna]

I recall KSV fixed some crucial stuff regarding rtmpdump though. In particular seeking, I have a lot of videos with problems downloaded with build from svnpenn. Some are fixed with LWLibavVideoSource(), some can't be handled even by it.

On another note I managed to get RTMP stream, but more with guessing. I can't get affiliateURI through RTMP calls alone, which is necessary for playpath. I posted link to script as example how to do it in livestreamer issue.

Gonna close this.