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Streaming Services use Widevine and other methodsto protect their videos. The Kodi media center can use the Android Framework to play these streams. It would be nice if we could feed the m3u8 and mpd addresses into vlc and it would make the proper license requests and play the file. Maybe alongside ...

I wanted to use my VLC player to watch streams coming from Akamai infrastructure. If i grab the manifest url in Firefox via DevTools and insert it in the vlc playlist it usually works. In this specific case it won't work. If you access the url for the first time in the browser, they set cookies whic...

Amazons audiobooks come in aax format which is encrypted with a personal key. VLC can partially parse the file without this key already and shows coverart , description and other metadata. The key can be parsed out of an existing Audible Installation with a fallback to manual input if the keystorage...

When i record BBC shows with rtmpdump and save the flv to my hd and try to play the file with vlc afterwards, i get a few issues. The file itself opened with a text editor reveals meta data at the top of the file like the shows name and the date the show aired. VLC file info stays empty. Even more a...