Watching live streaming video without Flash
I was really surprised that I couldn't find anything on this particular topic looking through the forum, nor my favorite search engine.
Was Free solution can I use in order to watch live streaming video such as thouse found on http://www.vipbox.tv ?
Any recommendations on getting it to play nice (or at all) with gnash or other options from the repository?
Usually you want to use something like UnPlug (an extension) to find an RTMP or RTSP link, and play that with VLC or Totem. Sometimes you have to change your user agent string to identify as an Android or iOS device to get such a link (use the User Agent Switcher extension to do this). Sometimes you can't do it at all.
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When I want to see a sportsing event (baketball) I stream it with VLC. You need to find an address and you want to paste it in VLC (ctrl+v).
This page contains some addresses -> http://iptv-zak.blogspot.it/
There are several websites like this one on the net. Problem is most streaming addresses change in a couple of days or weeks at most. The good thing is that those websites usually give you the latest addresses which should work.
Say you want to stream a foosball match. You need to know on which TV channel it is. Once you know the channel, you need to find the address of the channel and paste it in VLC.
Example -> You find Barcellona vs Juventus is on Bein 1.
You paste this address in VLC and bring the popcorn.
http://streamindo.ddns.net/jhos/beib1_5/streamindo/playlist.m3u8
Is it possible to instead of using VLC to play the stream, use wget or curl to download the stream into a file? One that you could later (or in real time) play localy in your vlc or media player? If you try using wget or curl with that link it will just download the m3u8 file itself. Not the streaming content...
Would be nice to record live streamings, being able to replay a live feed for example.
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I have no idea how to do that with curl/wget. Not quite sure if you can do that at all. I know mplayer can, with the command mplayer -dumpstream streamurl but I prefer VLC - you just enable the advanced controls in the view tab and start the stream and press the rec button (rec button again when you want to stop the recording).
Thanks for the reply :)
I know it can be done with mplayer and vlc. But I am really interested in learning how to do it with curl/wget.
Thanks anyway for your info :)
If anyone has knowledge about how to do it the way I intended please share :)
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You are welcome! I would be interested too to know if it is possible to curl a stream.
I cURL'd the Libreplanet 2015 streams.
A stream can also be dumped in VLC: Media --> Convert/Save...
Go to the network tab of the new dialog box, paste the URL in, then customize the encoding settings.
How did you curl'd the live streams? Any special option or parameter that you had to insert? For example with the m3u8 links that were specified above, are you able to curl them?