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Old 07-31-2017, 12:27 PM
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Re: How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC


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Originally Posted by j_cool View Post
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?
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