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How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

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limiteddi

07-29-2017 03:41 PM

How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

http://www.giniko.com/watch.php?id=216

Any ideas how to watch this in VLC? Streamlink failed, it seems to use WMS.

j_cool

07-29-2017 05:39 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

you need useragent and wmsAuthSign found in html source.

I didn't manage to get useragent working with vlc, without useragent won't work, so I use ffplay.exe

If you work out useragent with vlc, post here how you did it. --http-user-agent= didn't work for me.

Here is link to something similar with more details how to compile this autoit script:

http://stream-recorder.com/forum/sho...32&postcount=4

Code:

runwait('cmd.exe /c curl.exe http://www.giniko.com/watch.php?id=216 | CLIP','',@SW_HIDE,'')

$sData = ClipGet()

$sData = StringTrimLeft($sData,StringInStr($sData,'?wmsAuthSign='))

$sData = StringTrimRight($sData,(StringLen($sData)+1)-StringInStr($sData,'"'))

$url = '-user_agent Mozilla/5.0 -i http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?' & $sData

Run('cmd.exe /c ffplay.exe ' & $url,'',@SW_HIDE)

j_cool

07-30-2017 12:14 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

I can set useragent in gui only.

configuration file vlcrc, command line, no success.

sysanin, are you reading?

j_cool

07-30-2017 06:27 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Streamlink actually works here if you get m3u8 url.

Big issue uncovered from this thread.

How shall we set user agent for our VLC on command line or in vlcrc to look like browser to servers ?

Code:

C:\MISC\STREAMLINK>streamlink hlsvariant://http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMC8yMDE3IDU6NDg6MDEgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1aTVlWamFMVi83UnBwME9KUlZoYjl3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA= best



[cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hlsvariant://http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMC8yMDE3IDU6NDg6MDEgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1aTVlWamFMVi83UnBwME9KUlZoYjl3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA=

[cli][info] Available streams: 480p (worst, best)

[cli][info] Opening stream: 480p (hls)

[cli][info] Starting player: C:\P\VLC\vlc.exe

limiteddi

07-31-2017 09:18 AM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Getting 403 for some reason in streamlink and vlc

streamlink

Code:

streamlink -l debug --http-header "User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0" hlsvariant://http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MDc6MDggUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1Hd1RKMmVPZzVFQ0FWM2Y4bDRZdlhnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA= best --player-external-http --player-external-http-port 22334

[cli][info] streamlink is running as root! Be careful!

[cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hlsvariant://http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MDc6MDggUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1Hd1RKMmVPZzVFQ0FWM2Y4bDRZdlhnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA=

error: Unable to open URL: http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MDc6MDggUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1Hd1RKMmVPZzVFQ0FWM2Y4bDRZdlhnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA= (403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MDc6MDggUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1Hd1RKMmVPZzVFQ0FWM2Y4bDRZdlhnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA=)

vlc

Code:

vlc --http-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0" "tp://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MTM6NTIgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1TTW4veDNjMFpwMFZIelJSNlFEdE9BPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA=" --sout "#std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:2222}"

VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.3-37-g888b7e89)

[00007f8a144c9e88] http access error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

[00007f8a144c9e88] http access error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

[00007f8a144c9e88] access_mms access error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

[00007f8a100009b8] core input error: open of `http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MTM6NTIgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1TTW4veDNjMFpwMFZIelJSNlFEdE9BPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA=' failed

[00007f8a100009b8] core input error: Your input can't be opened

[00007f8a100009b8] core input error: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMS8yMDE3IDM6MTM6NTIgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1TTW4veDNjMFpwMFZIelJSNlFEdE9BPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTE0NDA='

j_cool

07-31-2017 11:23 AM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Streamlink runs VLC with it's own "user agent".

I wan to make it more simple than that.

I want to run VLC only with my fake user agent.

eddi,

you see here from post #4 that my batch file works and your does not work.

I can think about 2 things.

You messed up with too many parameters, or wmsAuthSign has expired. It lasts for a few hours only.

You can play Giniko with VLC and Streamlink if you modify my script a little bit, but that is not the point.

I want to play Giniko with VLC without Streamlink, and setting user agent for VLC is a problem.

You can see in post #3 that it works, so what is wrong with that?

That setting is for one shot only, I cannot get it saved.

Solution is setting user agent in vlcrc or find right switch for command line string, and I am working now on that.

bbcworld.exe passes m3u8 url from html source to Streamlink who plays Giniko with it's own "user agent" and runs VLC.

bbcworld.au3

Code:

runwait('cmd.exe /c curl.exe http://www.giniko.com/watch.php?id=216 | CLIP','',@SW_HIDE,'')

$sData = ClipGet()

$sData = StringTrimLeft($sData,StringInStr($sData,'?wmsAuthSign='))

$sData = StringTrimRight($sData,(StringLen($sData)+1)-StringInStr($sData,'"'))

$url = 'hlsvariant://http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?' & $sData & ' best'

Run('cmd.exe /c streamlink.exe ' & $url,'',@SW_HIDE)

Yelloworanges

07-31-2017 12:27 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Quote:

Originally Posted by j_cool (Post 93184)

You can play Giniko with VLC and Streamlink if you modify my script a little bit, but that is not the point.

I want to play Giniko with VLC without Streamlink, and setting user agent for VLC is a problem.

Based on the network traffic, vlc (without streamlink) is successfully reading the ginko url - even though vlc itself reports error. Also, vlc is using standard mozilla user agent.

It does not appear that it is a user agent problem with vlc. Rather, vlc is having trouble parsing this sort of live hls playlist. This sort of problem is the primary reason livestreamer/streamlink was written in the first place.

What is the disadvantage of using the streamlink/vlc combination?

j_cool

07-31-2017 12:35 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

1. speed

2. simplicity

3. independence

4. excercising my brain ( how well, is another story).

By the way, you always give good feedback.

Cheers,

Johnny.

j_cool

07-31-2017 12:43 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Streamlink is invaluable when I cannot figure something out, for example fox news on vaughnlive (rtmp).

Or other things "dynamic".

j_cool

08-01-2017 03:38 AM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Y_orange,

you will be surprised with my findings.

VLC may be using mozilla agent, but it appears to be "mysterious" to servers.

Here are examples, first gospel music:

winamp

VLC

Streamlink's work looks to me to be something like rtmpdump's work.

Rtmpdump saves stream to disk or pipes it to player.

Streamlink pipes output to VLC.

When you play the stream directly with VLC you see stream's url in VLC's title bar and no user agent whatsoever in urlsnooper.

AlJazeera: VLC, direct connection

When streamlink plays the stream you see fd://0 - VLC media player in title bar and User-Agent: python-requests/2.18.2 in urlsnooper.

Giniko, streamlink, VLC

Challenge still remains. Urlsnooper has to show VLC as Mozilla everywhere.

When I get m3u8 from Giniko urlsnooper shows curl. Giniko likes curl, just doesn't like nothing that VLC shows.

surya987

08-01-2017 07:27 AM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

i dont understand what you guys are trying to do.. but you can set useragent in VLc..

this is for GuI

Code:

:http-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36"

in cmd line try

Code:

--http-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36"

try this in more options in vlc

And this SS is packet captured from VLC....

j_cool

08-01-2017 08:31 AM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

This is my command line argument:

Code:

vlc.exe --http-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OC8xLzIwMTcgMjowMTozMSBQTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPTFUcytZR3ZIVG9RWG15K0srMlNYMUE9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9MTQ0MA==

and error message:

Code:

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OC8xLzIwMTcgMjowMTozMSBQTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPTFUcytZR3ZIVG9RWG15K0srMlNYMUE9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9MTQ0MA=='. Check the log for details.

Strangely, I cannot find log file anywhere.

c:\dir *.log /s

shows all log files on PC, none from VLC.

media menu, open network stream, more options defaults to:

:network-caching=1000

When I change that to:

:http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0

I can play Giniko, but that setting appears to be temporary, lasting for one run only.

Next time I open VLC I find :network-caching=1000 again.

If I knew how to make setting :http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 as permanent, it would solve my problem.

I tried vlcrc, I save setting, but when I run VLC I don't see any effect.

# User Agent (string)

http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0

That image that you posted shows exactly what I would like to see in urlsnooper, can you get it like that constantly or is it for one run only ?

What VLC version are you running?

Mine is: vlc-2.2.7-20170728-0528-win64

surya987

08-01-2017 08:57 AM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

sorry you cant set it globally....its for single use only...

using 2.2.4 VLC

j_cool

08-01-2017 04:23 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

Here is solution:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6244

Working command line argument:

set url=http://nimlive1.giniko.com/bbcworldnews/bbcworld/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OC8xLzIw MTcgOToyNToxMyBQTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPTJUSjUzenlPNkRyRW tJMFovU1F4TVE9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9MTQ0MA==

vlc.exe %url% :http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0

urlsnooper does not show any user agent, Giniko stream plays, user agent passed "as a per input option".

Logging can be set in this way, reading log file didn't help.

--extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=c:\vlc-log.txt

Whenever possible use ffplay.exe. VLC is CPU resources hog.

Yelloworanges

08-01-2017 05:54 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

So, it does work directly with vlc? I must have missed something.

j_cool

08-01-2017 06:00 PM

Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

If you understand all about VLC log file error messages..

it gives a lot of information, but not a clue that server wants user agent. Shows 403 in a sea of errors.

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