And finally,
my way of doing the thing:
opens literally instantly, faster than streamlink.
set url=http://live.tvplayer.com/cnn/5/prog_index.m3u8
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C:\MISC\STREAMLINK>set url=http://live.tvplayer.com/cnn/5/prog_index.m3u8
C:\MISC\STREAMLINK>ffplay -headers "Cookie: CloudFront-Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cDo vL2xpdmUudHZwbG
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y-Pair-Id=APKAJGWDVCU5SXAPJELQ; _ga=GA1.2.2088142750.1487358541; __qca=P0-1081178523-1487358541153; _gat=1" -vf scale=85
4:480
http://live.tvplayer.com/cnn/5/prog_index.m3u8
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