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Download HLS Stream with FFmpeg
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ffmpeg -loglevel debug -f hls -referer 'https://10play.com.au/live' -user_agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/82.0.4050.0 Safari/537.36' -f hls -i "https://manifest.prod.boltdns.net/manifest/v1/hls/v4/aes128/2199827728001/6bd7fe89-1f2f-42d0-b7a5-c676791a0d83/10s/master.m3u8?fastly_token=NWUzZDliOGZfNTJhZjJhN2IxMzQ5OTdjNGVkYmEzODkwNjYwZTYyMWY2ZmY1YjNmNGJkNWM3NjdiNDFiZmViNjczNzMwMmJlYQ%3D%3D" -c copy project5.mp4
# or this
ffmpeg -loglevel debug -f hls -referer 'https://10play.com.au/live' -user_agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/82.0.4050.0 Safari/537.36' -f hls -i "https://manifest.prod.boltdns.net/manifest/v1/hls/v4/aes128/2199827728001/6bd7fe89-1f2f-42d0-b7a5-c676791a0d83/10s/master.m3u8?fastly_token=NWUzZDliOGZfNTJhZjJhN2IxMzQ5OTdjNGVkYmEzODkwNjYwZTYyMWY2ZmY1YjNmNGJkNWM3NjdiNDFiZmViNjczNzMwMmJlYQ%3D%3D" -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc project3.mp4
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RJVB commented Dec 27, 2020

I'm often downloading videos where I get this kind of error:

[https @ 0x7fef54e01240] HTTP error 429 Too Many Requests
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Failed to open segment 300 of playlist 0                                                                     
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Opening 'XXX' for reading
[https @ 0x7fef54e01240] HTTP error 429 Too Many Requests
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Failed to open segment 300 of playlist 0                                                                     
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Opening 'XXX' for reading
[https @ 0x7fef54b8af40] HTTP error 429 Too Many Requests
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Failed to open segment 300 of playlist 0                                                                     
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Opening 'XXX' for reading
[https @ 0x7fef52d4bfc0] HTTP error 429 Too Many Requests
[hls @ 0x7fef5380fe00] Failed to open segment 300 of playlist 0                                                                     

The videos usually end up being fine and complete so I think ffmpeg just continues to harass the server until the request succeeds. A more polite way would be to wait a certain amount of time - possibly even as a function of the duration of the last downloaded segment (which would emulate someone watching the stream). Is there an option for that?

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