Need some help with live stream to be used in Jellyfin (Restream)

[tjvatikaki]

Hi Everyone,

I am using WidevineProxy2 to get the key for a live stream, then I copy what it gives me and run the cmd:

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://r-live-cache.akamaized.net/USL03/SH4/SH4.isml/.mpd?ssai=cGlkPUs0ODgyVVBPOE1QMTBQWjdBNzA5SDBJUzAw NUwmZGNpZD1kZXNrdG9wJnQ9UEE6UFJFTUlVTSxQUjpEU3R2LF NDOkxpbmVhciZwZj1odG1sNSZnZHByPTAmZ2Rwcl9jb25zZW50 PTAmZ2Rwcl9wZD0w&filter=%28type%3D%3D%22video%22%2 6%26MaxHeight%3C%3D576%29%7C%7C%28type%3D%3D%22aud io%22%26%26systemBitrate%3E30000%29%7C%7C%28type%3 D%3D%22textstream%22%29&hdnts=exp%3D1757334516~acl %3D*%2FSH4*~id%3De5268207-fc62-4e50-8383-741f9c1ce4c9~data%3Dplayback_capabilities%3DCLOUD_ DVR~hmac%3D4e2fec105c3cc2982aff8cb974fd986b7554354 cdf127d88285b23559b40cec9" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Origin: https://dstv.stream" -H "Referer: https://dstv.stream/" --key dead7f13c4144efdb89ba1826ae19f21:0687c113117bbcfe0 464b7acf1bdbe8f --use-shaka-packager -M format=mkv

It gives me the different quality options and I choose 720p. It starts to download and keeps downloading, but it never creates a file, I only get a new folder called "_2025-09-08_14-23-00" and inside this folder I have another 2 folders and 3 files.

(Folder) - 0_video=1200000_hvc1.1.6.L93.B0_1200000_
(Folder) - 1_audio_ata=64000_mp4a.40.2_64000_ata
(File) - meta.json
(File) - meta_selected.json
(File) - raw.mpd

Will someone please be able to help get it running and for me to get it to work in jellyfin.

Thanking you in advance.

[lomero]

if N_m3u8DL-RE get folder audio and video but no download, maybe forbidden. need more -H
proxy2 is wonderful ext but download command is not always complete, sometimes you need to add some headers

maybe share one screen shot when run N_m3u8DL-RE command

but before try again and add
--append-url-params

or try also this command
RE "http://mpd" --mp4-real-time-decryption --live-real-time-merge --live-pipe-mux --use-shaka-packager --key xxxxxx --save-name xxx

[tjvatikaki]

Hi lomero,

thank you for your reply. I've tried to add --append-url-params, but same thing happens, it download to a folder, this is what I get


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Then I also ran the other command you have suggested, but then I get a "forbidden" error


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[lomero]

about forbidden need more -H
or maybe also need cookies. -H "Cookie: eyJT...."

but seem on first command work fine (with --append-url-params)
add time to rip (command below rip 50 min of live video)
--live-record-limit 00:50:00

[tjvatikaki]

Thanks lomero, I have made a test for 5 mins, but the same issue


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[lomero]

again. if download not work/forbidden need more header. or cookie for header
without test myself idk what happen, so can't help

[tjvatikaki]

Thanks lomero, I will give it a go.

[lomero]

this site is DStv live. maybe some users here know how rip live from this streaming service. share your info's about download

[cedric8528]

This command works for me.

Could you test it?

N_m3u8DL-RE "fresh mpd link" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Referer: https://dstv.stream/" -H "Origin: https://dstv.stream" --live-pipe-mux --live-record-limit 00:02:00 --key dead7f13c4144efdb89ba1826ae19f21:0687c113117bbcfe0464b7acf1bdbe8f

Check that you have ffmpeg in the N_m3u8DL-RE folder.


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[lomero]

great cedric !

[tjvatikaki]

This command works for me.

Could you test it?

N_m3u8DL-RE "fresh mpd link" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Referer: https://dstv.stream/" -H "Origin: https://dstv.stream" --live-pipe-mux --live-record-limit 00:02:00 --key dead7f13c4144efdb89ba1826ae19f21:0687c113117bbcfe0464b7acf1bdbe8f

Check that you have ffmpeg in the N_m3u8DL-RE folder.


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Perfect, thank you so much Cedric, this works and I get my .ts file. Really appreciate your help.