How to watch streams in your favourite video player.
Current problems with Flash under Linux:
- new versions of Adobe plugins will support only Chrome Pepper - for other browsers only older plugins will be available
- closed source ™
- sometimes you cannot exit full screen mode
- sometimes just hangs with 100% CPU usage
- sometimes it just crash
There is some alternative - shumway but currently it doesn't support YouTube so my guess is that Twitch isn't either. Additionally when page is using SWFObject we will see only "install Adobe Flash" text.
Downloading
Listing flv files for given archive link (past broadcast), archive.py:
#!/usr/bin/python3
from urllib.request import urlopen
import json, sys, re
decoder = json.decoder.JSONDecoder()
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
m = re.match(r"^.*/([^/]+)/b/([0-9]+)$", arg)
video_id = int(m.group(2))
with urlopen("http://api.justin.tv/api/broadcast/by_archive/%d.json" % video_id) as f:
resp = decoder.decode(f.read().decode())
for i in resp:
print(i["video_file_url"])
Usage:
$ ./archive.py http://www.twitch.tv/some_channel/b/4173086 http://store30.media30.justin.tv/archives/2013-6-15/live_user_some_channel_13713088.flv http://store38.media38.justin.tv/archives/2013-6-15/live_user_some_channel_13713106.flv http://store6.media6.justin.tv/archives/2013-6-15/live_user_some_channel_13713124.flv
Only remaining thing is to download those files.
Watching
We will be needing livestreamer and rtmpdump. To not litter in system i've used python virtualenv. Steps below are assuming that rtmpdump is not installed in system.
So:
cd /path/to/project git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump virtualenv env make -C rtmpdump/ source env/bin/activate pip install livestreamer
Next step could be writing script for starting player:
#!/bin/bash
d="$(dirname $0)"
source "${d}"/l/bin/activate
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${d}"/rtmpdump/librtmp/ livestreamer -p /path/to/player -r "${d}"/rtmpdump/rtmpdump "${@}"
... and we can start watching:
./run.sh http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhacksc2 720p
you can also save stream to file:
./run.sh http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhacksc2 720p -o file.flv
