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I'm trying to restream a HLS stream, which has a #EXT-X-KEY set in the m3u8. The only way to get that key is to change the user agent.

This works if I set it in "Open Network Stream" under "Edit Options" like so:

:http-user-agent=xxx

but when I try to restream the feed (no transcoding or anything fancy), it seems to ignore the same identical flag.

Is this just not possible with VLC, or is there a trick to get it working?

How are you restreaming the feed?

Media -> Stream -> Network tab, Enter m3u8 URL, add the http-user-agent to "Edit Options", and then go through the Stream Output 'wizard'.

Look at the last page with the big sout option edition. Add it before the :sout part

Ah, before. I think I already tried it after with no luck. Does the User Agent string need to be encoded somehow? In the SD lua script, I've got

http-user-agent=AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8C148 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en_us)

which works fine as it's in quotes, but how do I cope with the spaces in the wizard? Can I just put quotes around the whole user-agent like this:

:http-user-agent="AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8C148 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en_us)"

Edit: Just tried it, and it works perfectly! Thanks so much for the help

VLC options are always with quotes.