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Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 14 Apr 2020 11:40
by crazy_ku
Hello,
I tried to play below m3u8 link but it can't be loaded. I am using VLC 3.0.8 on Windows 10 x64
I also tried with other players (MPC, some IPTV apps from windows store) and it can be played normally, so I think it isn't the problem of the m3u8 link
Can you please help to figure it out?
Thank you !
m3u8 link:
http://livecdn.fptplay.net/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8
debug message:
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main debug: processing request item: chunklist_b2500000.m3u8, node: Playlist, skip: 0
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 3 items, index 2
main debug: starting playback of new item
main debug: resyncing on chunklist_b2500000.m3u8
main debug: chunklist_b2500000.m3u8 is at 2
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'chunklist_b2500000.m3u8'
main debug: requesting art for new input thread
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Tuan\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
main debug: no meta fetcher modules matched
main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Tuan\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB
main debug: using timeshift path: C:\Users\Tuan\AppData\Local\Temp
main debug: `http://livecdn.fptplay.net/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8' gives access `http' demux `any' path `livecdn.fptplay.net/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8'
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
main debug: creating demux: access='http' demux='any' location='livecdn.fptplay.net/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8' file='\\livecdn.fptplay.net\hda\vtv8hd_hls.smil\chunklist_b2500000.m3u8'
main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "http": 15 candidates
main debug: no access_demux modules matched
main debug: creating access: http://livecdn.fptplay.net/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8
main debug: (path: \\livecdn.fptplay.net\hda\vtv8hd_hls.smil\chunklist_b2500000.m3u8)
main debug: looking for access module matching "http": 26 candidates
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
http debug: resolving livecdn.fptplay.net ...
http debug: outgoing request: GET /hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8 HTTP/1.1 Host: livecdn.fptplay.net Accept: */* Accept-Language: en_US User-Agent: VLC/3.0.8 LibVLC/3.0.8 Range: bytes=0-
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder modules matched
qt debug: IM: Setting an input
http debug: incoming response: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Server: nginx Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:18:31 GMT Content-Type: text/html Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive
access error: HTTP 403 error
http debug: connection failed
http debug: querying proxy for http://livecdn.fptplay.net/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8
http debug: no proxy
http debug: http: server='livecdn.fptplay.net' port=80 file='/hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8'
main debug: net: connecting to livecdn.fptplay.net port 80
main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 1524)
http debug: sending request: GET /hda/vtv8hd_hls.smil/chunklist_b2500000.m3u8 HTTP/1.0 Host: livecdn.fptplay.net User-Agent: VLC/3.0.8 LibVLC/3.0.8 Icy-MetaData: 1
http debug: HTTP answer code 403
http error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
main debug: no access modules matched
main debug: dead input
qt debug: IM: Deleting the input
main debug: changing item without a request (current 2/3)
main debug: nothing to play
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 14 Apr 2020 23:12
by Lotesdelere
debug message:
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access error: HTTP 403 error
http debug: HTTP answer code 403
http error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 14 Apr 2020 23:51
by crazy_ku
So it means they blocked VLC? There is no solution?
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 15 Apr 2020 10:27
by Lotesdelere
Either it requires some kind of authentication (logging, token, IP, etc) or it's blocking the user agent, but since the ability of changing the user agent of VLC has been removed for some mysterious reason there is not much you can do.
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 18 Apr 2020 16:13
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
I tried to play below m3u8 link but it can't be loaded. I am using VLC 3.0.8 on Windows 10 x64
I also tried with other players (MPC, some IPTV apps from windows store) and it can be played normally, so I think it isn't the problem of the m3u8 link
Can you please help to figure it out?
Either the server is blocking VLC, and you need to force a different UA:
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vlc.exe <URL> :http-user-agent=<UA> or it's blocking for some other reasons that you can probably do nothing about.
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 19:30
by Operation
I tried to play below m3u8 link but it can't be loaded. I am using VLC 3.0.8 on Windows 10 x64
I also tried with other players (MPC, some IPTV apps from windows store) and it can be played normally, so I think it isn't the problem of the m3u8 link
Can you please help to figure it out?
Either the server is blocking VLC, and you need to force a different UA:
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vlc.exe <URL> :http-user-agent=<UA> or it's blocking for some other reasons that you can probably do nothing about.
I'm having exactly the same problem. I have a m3u8 stream that's working via online tools like this:
http://player.kaltura.com/modules/Kaltu ... 3Afalse%7D. It's also working when I play it via VLC launched from CMD, with the syntax you suggested and Chrome UA ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36"). But when I add the UA flag to "Edit Options" in VLC GUI's "Open Network Stream" window with the exact same stream, it doesn't work...
Any ideas?
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 21:56
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
Yes, that option only works per item. The easiest way to deal with it is to write an M3U file with VLC extended options in it.
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 22:19
by Operation
Yes, that option only works per item. The easiest way to deal with it is to write an M3U file with VLC extended options in it.
Do you have an example to give for such a thing? Or some reference...
Thanks
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:28
by Lotesdelere
It's also working when I play it via VLC launched from CMD, with the syntax you suggested and Chrome UA ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36"). But when I add the UA flag to "Edit Options" in VLC GUI's "Open Network Stream" window with the exact same stream, it doesn't work...
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=99636
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:48
by Operation
It's also working when I play it via VLC launched from CMD, with the syntax you suggested and Chrome UA ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36"). But when I add the UA flag to "Edit Options" in VLC GUI's "Open Network Stream" window with the exact same stream, it doesn't work...
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=99636
I see this is a longtime and ongoing issue. Also, you refer to multiple threads on this subject, so the demand is there. Won't it be appropriate for the VLC developers to consider supporting this feature in the VLC GUI too?
How can we promote this?
Also, if there are other players which support custom UA out of the box and through the GUI, I'd love to hear about it.
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:52
by Lotesdelere
As you can see in the last post of the thread I've mentionned, the feature has been removed on purpose:
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 03542.html
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 28 Feb 2021 19:55
by Romano
Hey, I am not very good at technology, sorry in advance, I don’t know how to create a post on this website.
I got this m3u8 link :
https://load.hdfilme.ws/playlist/531911 ... c793f.m3u8
I can play it in Safari on my iPad, but can’t play it in VLC. I double tap the file and it just plays like half a second of it then stops (in VLC), even though it sees that the file is 2:00:49 long.
I would want to download it, but it just downloads a 162ko file when I try.
Can someone help me ?
Re: Can't play m3u8 link??
Posted: 01 Mar 2021 11:13
by Lotesdelere
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adaptive error: Failed reading https://p11d1c9b884-6b67-4bc4-8b38-7fe101682ea8.hdfilme.ws:443/hls/3db3943171f7f4772c67126612f0ab71/3db3943171f7f4772c67126612f0ab71-3.html?msKey=S4:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
I guess that's because the "531911330277e36ccfea9d64c3cc793f/531911330277e36ccfea9d64c3cc793f" part is a kind of token which expires after some time.