Watch justin.tv on VLC Player
December 15, 2011
For those of you who always wanted to watch/record Live Streams from justin.tv I wrote this tutorial. It is a bit of work to do and you have to decide wether it is worth it or not. First of all you need rtmpdump. Unzip that and change to its working directory in your cmd prompt. The main command to pipe the Stream you are about to watch to VLC is this:
$rtmpdump -r "RTMP adress" --jtv "usher token"
--swfUrl "swf adress" -o - | "local VLC adress" -
The RTMP adress can be found in the XML document at http://usher.justin.tv/find/”stream”.xml?type=any under “connect” where “stream” is the name of the stream you want to watch. In this XML you will also find the usher token under “token”. It is important that you use escape characters at some point there. For the swf adress you have to open the streampage htmlcode and search for “swfobject” in it. The local VLC adress pretty much explains itself. Have fun watching your favorite streams in VLC!
Update: For those of you who to pipe twitch.tv use the following cmd:
$rtmpdump -r "RTMP adress" -a "app" -f "WIN 11,0,1,152" -W "swf adress" -p "channel adress" -j "usher token" --live -y "playpath out of token" -o - | "local VLC adress" -
And last but not least there is also a plugin to watch megavideo with your VLC: megavideo.lua
nice post….thanks
but got the token from the .xml file but I have no idea how to “use escape characters ” in message you’ve mentioned…
can you give me some ideas how to convert?
thanks.
benny
I am at work right now but I will provide an example connection to you as soon as I am back at home.
It is basically just a backslash. Like this \’ instead of just ‘ in that string.
justin.tv example:
rtmpdump -r “rtmp://199.9.249.172/app/jtv_ju2EG2gWorOlrczy” –jtv “8ee618d6d1c782b39f758dd56259867cd9e82d95:{\”swfDomains\”: [\"justin.tv\", \"jtvx.com\", \"xarth.com\", \"twitchtv.com\", \"twitch.tv\", \"newjtv.com\", \"wdtinc.com\", \"imapweather.com\", \"facebook.com\", \"starcrafting.com\"], \”streamName\”: \”jtv_ju2EG2gWorOlrczy\”, \”expiration\”: 1323992973.4706509, \”geo_ip\”: \”88.73.151.2\”, \”server\”: \”video66-1\”}” –swfUrl “http://www-cdn.justin.tv/widgets/live_frontpage_player.r2313ee4f9e3aece3d137ed336572a68d20dd9e88.swf” -o – | “C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\vlc.exe” -
twitch.tv example:
rtmpdump -r “rtmp://199.9.255.43/app” -a “app” -f “WIN 11,0,1,152″ -W “http://www-cdn.justin.tv/widgets/live_site_player.rc4b0693101e4b5c2aaf35840d31f17b899da9e14.swf” -p “http://de.twitch.tv/moonmeander” -j “9334427ab9de6ff8bcf3d607062621a7978f4e8e:{\”swfDomains\”: [\"justin.tv\", \"jtvx.com\", \"xarth.com\", \"twitchtv.com\", \"twitch.tv\", \"newjtv.com\", \"wdtinc.com\", \"imapweather.com\", \"facebook.com\", \"starcrafting.com\"], \”streamName\”: \”jtv_85Zl4ugHiVRfi4Y2\”, \”expiration\”: 1324045419.0868039, \”server\”: \”iad01-video7-1\”}” –live -y “jtv_85Zl4ugHiVRfi4Y2″ -o – | “C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\vlc.exe” -
I wrote a Python script that generates these command lines for rtmpdump
http://pastebin.com/wXuu57YN
Thanks for the tip :)
Error message when using the script:
mint12 ~ $ ./justin.py -u de.justin.tv/mychannel
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./justin.py”, line 144, in
streamId, streamService = getStreamBasicInfo(url)
File “./justin.py”, line 69, in getStreamBasicInfo
streamingService = r.group(1);
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘group’
@rol: line 68 you need to replace:
r = re.search(‘(twitch.tv|twitch.tv)\/([\w\d\-_]+)’, url)
by
r = re.search(‘(twitch.tv|justin.tv)\/([\w\d\-_]+)’, url)
Your link doesn’t work any more…
Thanks!
Regarding the missing Python script, there’s an equivalent bash script here[http://command-line-tools.googlecode.com/git/jtv.sh].
im having trouble executing your script, since “stream.xml” seems to be empty:
bash jtv.sh channel theprohacker
XPath set is empty
warning: failed to load external entity “stream.xml”
jtv.sh: Zeile 17: ((: i<: Syntax Fehler: Operator erwartet. (Fehlerverursachendes Zeichen ist \"<\").
Thanks for the heads up! It’s fixed now!
I’d like to thank you for your post John and also thanks to everyone else keeping this topic alive.
Because there is still a huge interest on this topic you should check out https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
Just make sure you are using the new rtmpdump 2.4, because they just added jtv support. It works for linux as well as for windows and supports all major streaming platforms (justin/twitch, own3d, Ustream etc.)
Pretty cool, thanks!
Can I somehow choose the bitrate when there are multiple choices? (240p, 360p, 480p, etc)
Oh nevermind, I noticed the XML document has different RTMP & token data for all the bitrates.
e.g.
RTMP
Token
RTMP
Token
Was supposed to read
(240p)
RTMP
Token
(/240p)
(360p)
RTMP
Token
(/360p)
Can’t post stuff in pointy brackets I see…
just put the bitrate after your channelname i.e:
livestreamer channelname 720p
I want to grab a stream from twitch.tv, and then broadcast it over my own network to a media device.
I can use livestreamer to grab the stream, and I can broadcast from VLC to my device.
But I cant figure out how to do both at the same time.
When i start broadcasting from VLC, I have to select an input – file or network location.
But since livestreamer is starting VLC up automatically, I don’t know what to select as input.
Can anyone help, or maybe provide another solution?
Looking into it a bit more, it seems VLC is getting data from fd://0
However, if I reload it, it doesn’t seem to work – even if i don’t close the player, and the stream hasn’t ended.
In wich way do you get the Hash og the Stream_ID.
I try to download a stream but i don´t get the Stream_ID
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