How to watch BBC World News from Giniko on VLC

[limiteddi]

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]

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

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]

I can set useragent in gui only.

configuration file vlcrc, command line, no success.

sysanin, are you reading?

[j_cool]

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 ?

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]

Getting 403 for some reason in streamlink and vlc

streamlink

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

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]

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

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]

Originally Posted by j_cool

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]

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]

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

Or other things "dynamic".

[j_cool]

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.