HTTP authentication

[vpetersson]

First, let me say thanks for a great tool.

I'm the creator of Screenly, a digital signage player for the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to omxplayer, it was trivial to add support for video playback.

One request we've received from a few users however is the ability to stream content from password protected http/https resource.

I know mplayer supports this, and I was just curious if this is something you'd be interested in adding. I do realize this is somewhat of a niche feature, but I just wanted to reach out and check.

(This is discussed in Screenly ticket #19.)

[matiaspl]

If it's not working already this could be easily implemented, as ffmpeg supports it.

[popcornmix]

What does the command line to play one of the streams (from mplayer or ffmpeg) look like?

[vpetersson]

What does the command line to play one of the streams (from mplayer or ffmpeg) look like?

$ mplayer [...] −user <username> −passwd <password> [...]

(from man)

[popcornmix]

How about ffmpeg? I really want to know if these just form part of the URL (e.g. http://username:password@foobar.com) or whether there are any libffmpeg/libavcodec functions to configure this.

[vpetersson]

Yes, it appears as it has been supported in ffmpeg since 0.6.3 [1][2].

I cannot find any references to any username or password flags, so I assume that means that the standardized syntax http://username:password@domain.com is used.

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[popcornmix]

Can you find an address where http://username:password@domain.com works on ffmpeg. Can you try the same address on omxplayer?

[vpetersson]

Sorry for the late response. However, here are my findings.

As for mplayer, I can confirm that both of the following commands work:

$ mplayer http://foobar:foobar@example/test.mp4
$ mplayer  -user foobar -passwd foobar http://example/test.mp4

I can also confirm that ffmpeg works with the following command (or in this case, ffprobe):

$ ffprobe http://foobar:foobar@example/test.mp4

[popcornmix]

Does anyone have a real url like http://foobar:foobar@example/test.mp4 I can use to test?

[skgsergio]

I've created a test, works with mplayer and vlc but can't test it on omxplayer due I don't have my Raspberry Pi now with me:

http://test:test@omxplayer.sconde.net/test/big_buck_bunny_480p_h264.mov

[popcornmix]

@ skgsergio thanks. It plays fine! (and if username or password is wrong it doesn't play as expected).

[skgsergio]

As I thougth :) due omxplayer is using ffmepg.

@vpetersson works for you?

[vpetersson]

Yep, works fine. Thanks guys. I should have tested this before escalating it. Maybe we should add a note in the docs about this newly found support :)