Opened 17 months ago
Last modified 16 months ago
#11573 new enhancement
WebSocket (ws/wss) protocol support
| Reported by: | Hackerpcs | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Component: | avformat |
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | websocket |
| Cc: | MasterQuestionable | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: | no | |
| Analyzed by developer: | yes |
Description
Greek Channel Mega TV uses websocket (wss) for its live streaming, AV1 video/AAC audio
https://www.megatv.com/live/
eg
wss://ume3-edge-01.cdn.vindral.com/subscribe?channelId=alteregomedia_megatv1_ci_6cc490c7-e5c6-486b-acf0-9bb9c20fa670&sessionId=ece2f6d2-b264-48c6-a3fe-2a0f3265b8df&clientId=36e4a9f8-8f57-40c0-92f4-0eadc9caaed2&audio.bitRate=128000&audio.codec=aac&video.width=1280&video.height=720&video.bitRate=2200000&video.codec=av1&burstMs=2000
It loads a placeholder 1 second mp4 file as a decoy first and then transmits over wss.
larley here
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/417910-MegaTV-Greece-Unknown-wss-streaming-protocol#post2771070
has implented python code that does record the stream
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 17 months ago
comment:2 by , 17 months ago
| Analyzed by developer: | set |
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| Cc: | added |
| Component: | ffmpeg → avformat |
| Keywords: | websocket added |
| Summary: | WebSocket (wss) streaming support → WebSocket (ws/wss) protocol support |
͏ WebSocket is probably not proprietary protocol.
͏ As some inaccurate but rough analogy:
͏ Regard it as some fancy variant of HTTP.
͏ Using `curl` to download the stream should work.
͏ And then FFmpeg shall be able to process the media.
͏ `yt-dlp` seems already doing alike:
͏ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/12848
FFmpeg is very unlikely to add support for proprietary protocols that stream over WebSocket I'm afraid.