[MPlayer-users] YouTube live streams/HLS

[Josh]

On 5/8/2016 16:31, Josh wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone was able to get live YouTube streams to work
> in mplayer, at least without piping using program like YouTube-dl?
>
> Getting the real URL isn't the issue (used mostly in SMPlayer, which
> will do that then pass it to mplayer). The streams only play for a
> approx 5-10 seconds then exit, with messages like:
>
>
> [tls @ 017575a0]The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
>
> [https @ 017575a0]HTTP error 403 Forbidden
>
> [hls,applehttp @ 01742220]Failed to reload playlist 0
>
>
> I'm using GnuTLS 3.3.22. I tried Zeranoe's ffmpeg ffplay and the streams
> worked fine. I'm not sure what the configuration difference there is for
> say GnuTLS since his site doesn't go too in depth, just that v3.3.22 was
> used.
>
> http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/logs/mplayer-20160508-1600.log
> http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/logs/mplayer-20160508-1615.log
> http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/logs/mplayer-20160508-1624.log
>
> The URL used is Sky News Live
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg (one has to use 'youtube-dl
> -g' to get the .m3u8 URL)
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Seems OpenSSL wasn't the solution.