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    2017 Live Stream Capture Tech Talk

    This thread is for the nerds to discuss and figure out how best to capture the live streams this year. Currently, that means just FYF Fest this weekend.

    Our collective knowledge during the last tour cycle is here.

    Anyone familiar with Twitter live stream format? I imagine there's an HLS stream available somewhere for iOS devices. I wonder if they'll use MPEG-DASH for the main stream. I think that's what YouTube is using these days, right? Anyone got any tips or tools? We'll have all day Saturday and Sunday to figure out and practice on the Twitter stream.

    Some tools:

    https://github.com/Viblast/hls-proxy
    https://github.com/osklil/hls-fetch

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    OK, well, I looked at one of the live streams listed here:

    https://twitter.com/twitterlive

    And while it's delivered via HLS, according to the manifest, it looks like it's AES encrypted. Bummer. I'll have to poke at this some more. I'd rather not have to resort to screen recording, but we may have no choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBang View Post
    OK, well, I looked at one of the live streams listed here:

    https://twitter.com/twitterlive

    And while it's delivered via HLS, according to the manifest, it looks like it's AES encrypted. Bummer. I'll have to poke at this some more. I'd rather not have to resort to screen recording, but we may have no choice.
    If it does come down to that... what's the currently preferred method for doing screen caps?

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    Did anyone test record the stream yet? any luck?

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    If nothing else, I'd strongly encourage someone to at least do an audio grab. (My internet is so bad here that I don't think I could pull it off, or else I'd just be doing it myself)

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    I'll be screen recording with the GeForce Experience screen capture thing

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    Watching the stream of some other bullshit right now, is there a trick to stream quality? No options in the player to set it and it looks very low, like 480p low.

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    Yes, enter fullscreen mode, and you should get something closer to 1080p, I think.

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    I only see a max of 1280x720 for the stream based on the info in the m3u8 file.

    Here's the URL: https://hlslive-l3cg3.med1.m.lv.twim...lide_twv1.m3u8
    Last edited by FULLMETAL; 07-23-2017 at 09:00 PM. Reason: added link

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    The audio sounds like it's crowd mics - gonna be complete shit for NIN

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    Quote Originally Posted by FULLMETAL View Post
    I only see a max of 1280x720 for the stream based on the info in the m3u8 file.

    Here's the URL: https://hlslive-l3cg3.med1.m.lv.twim...lide_twv1.m3u8
    Yup, that's the highest bitrate, 3500. How are you getting the resolution? Decoding the fragments?

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    Downloaded the m3u8 and the following was listed:

    #EXTM3U
    #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2121091,RESOLUTION=896x504,CODECS="m p4a.40.2,avc1.4d001f"
    1800K/1800_slide_twv1.m3u8
    #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=559938,RESOLUTION=400x224,CODECS="mp 4a.40.2,avc1.42c01e"
    450K/450_slide_twv1.m3u8
    #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=985571,RESOLUTION=512x288,CODECS="mp 4a.40.2,avc1.42c01e"
    800K/800_slide_twv1.m3u8
    #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1425340,RESOLUTION=640x360,CODECS="m p4a.40.2,avc1.4d001f"
    1200K/1200_slide_twv1.m3u8
    #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2908735,RESOLUTION=960x540,CODECS="m p4a.40.2,avc1.4d001f"
    2500K/2500_slide_twv1.m3u8
    #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=4023049,RESOLUTION=1280x720,CODECS=" mp4a.40.2,avc1.640029"
    3500K/3500_slide_twv1.m3u8

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    That's odd. I don't see that in the m3u8 that I get. This is what I get:

    https://pastebin.com/JxcH3hjC

    What does yours look like?

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    Here's as far as I've gotten in decryption. The decryption key (https://media-api.m.lv.twimg.com/pro...ys/id/20307890) is always the same, in hex: 45F859D2B58D3507DEBCF807A6F79D3A. i.e. they are not rotating keys (which is a feature). So, only the initialization vector (IV) is changing, and that's listed in the m3u8.

    So, in my example m3u8 above, the IV should be CD08B15FC528B365A6365A74DDD6CC34 for fragment 02/30/03.ts.

    It should work if you decrypt with those values, like so:

    Code:
    $ openssl aes-128-cbc -d -K 45f859d2b58d3507debcf807a6f79d3a -iv CD08B15FC528B365A6365A74DDD6CC34 -nosalt -in 03.ts -out 03-dec.ts
    But I just get:

    Code:
    bad decrypt
    35490:error:06065064:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-52.40.1/src/crypto/evp/evp_enc.c:337:



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    Crap. I can't see a thing on twitter, giving me some kind of error. It's probably geographically restricted.

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    Downloaded a different m3u8 from the feed in the URL I mentioned above. It looks like the one you posted. Here's a link: https://pastebin.com/mczHJ3W1

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    Soooo what am I copying and pasting where to get the best stream?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Papagolash View Post
    Soooo what am I copying and pasting where to get the best stream?
    Does this one work for you? https://hlslive-l3cg3.med1.m.lv.twim...lide_twv1.m3u8

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    Quote Originally Posted by FULLMETAL View Post
    My PC is just opening a download window and asking what app to use to open the file... Am I doing something wrong?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LOVEANDZOMBIES View Post
    My PC is just opening a download window and asking what app to use to open the file... Am I doing something wrong?
    Sorry, no idea. I'm on OSX.

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    Open it with VLC, Media Player Classic, or even try a browser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FULLMETAL View Post

    Crap not working, tried it on vlc and ace player

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    Chiming in, that URL is not working on VLC on Windows 10 for me, when I Open a Network Stream.
    gnutls debug: Winsock error 0 gnutls error: TLS handshake error: Internal error in memory allocation.
    main error: TLS client session handshake error
    gnutls debug: GnuTLS deinitialized
    access_http error: cannot establish HTTP/TLS session


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    Fuck guys, I don't know how it's working for me and no one else. Here's a screen cap of my browser if that's any help: https://i.imgur.com/sZ9AiNW.png

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    The decryption key requires a cookie to be resident from the main Twitter site. Otherwise, the client will get a 401 Unauthorized message when trying to retrieve the key. Unless you're able to fake the cookie, or otherwise redirect your client to fetch/read the key elsewhere, a web browser is probably the only client that can stream it properly.

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    This is what I get. VLC on OSX:

    core debug: connection succeeded (socket = 24)securetransport debug: open TLS session for hlslive-l3cg3.med1.m.lv.twimg.com
    securetransport debug: handshake is blocked, try again later
    securetransport debug: handshake is blocked, try again later
    securetransport debug: handshake is blocked, try again later
    securetransport debug: cerfificate verification successful, result is 4
    securetransport debug: handshake completed successfully
    http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 403
    http error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

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    Quote Originally Posted by slave2thewage View Post
    http error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
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    That's probably because you're out of the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBang View Post
    The decryption key requires a cookie to be resident from the main Twitter site. Otherwise, the client will get a 401 Unauthorized message when trying to retrieve the key. Unless you're able to fake the cookie, or otherwise redirect your client to fetch/read the key elsewhere, a web browser is probably the only client that can stream it properly.
    So far the only success I've had with streaming on Windows 10 is Edge:


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    trying Edge worked for me too. I had to log into Twitter 1st before trying the link. I've also learned tonight that Internet Explorer is now called Edge.

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