DRM-free VTM GO live streams have a delay of 2 hours

[Flippi]

I have managed to find the keys for VTM GO's live streams.
I use the script "share2box" to use the mpd-URL's and the keys to convert the streams to DRM-free ts-streams playable on VLC Media Player or my Enigma2 receiver.
This works without any problems for other providers (VRT MAX and GoPlay), but the VTM GO streams play with exactly a 2-hour delay compared to the live streams on the VTM Go website.
Any idea how to solve this so that they also play live?

[LZAA]

Url?

[Flippi]

https://www.vtmgo.be/vtmgo
Free account necessary, also VPN needed when not in Belgium.

[aqzs]

Did you tried streamlink ?

[Karoolus]

The MPDs for the livestreams works just fine on my end. I'm not sure what you do with them to get it "DRM-free"?

[notaghost]

yes no delay

[Flippi]

@aqzs
I did not yet try Streamlink so far because it works for most of the streams with the script "Share2box".

@Karoolus
Yes the MPD's for the livestreams work just fine in my browser, but I want to watch the streams on my TV.
The script "Share2box" runs on a Raspberry Pi as a server for my sat-receiver.
What goes in the script: the MPD-url like:

https://bd19141f6551407493ce37a120d867ce.mediatailor.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/v1/dash/b...ME_STRING_HERE

and the KID:KEY

What comes out:
A DRM-free MPEG-TS stream like:

http://192.168.1.92:8989/1017/ts

which can be played on my TV (by means of my Enigma2 sat-receiver).

Now the good thing: it works, the live channels of VRT MAX and GoPlay can be watched on my TV.
The bad thing: all live channels of VTM Go can be watched on my TV too, but they have a delay of 2 hours compared with the stream in the browser.
So at 19:00 "VTM Nieuws" starts in my browser and at the same moment with the same MPD-url on my TV there's the program of 17:00.

I wonder if I could add another parameter to the MPD-url in order to have the current livestream and not the one of 2 hours ago.


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[Flippi]

yes no delay
http://45.154.26.144:1234/stream/vtm/vtm/master.m3u8?u=asd&p=688787d8ff144c502c7f5cffa...26b0cb99ce91c6

o11-OTT?

Working fine here for VRT MAX and GoPlay, but didn't manage to make the VTM-stream work.

[Karoolus]

Very strange, is it a case of "watch from the start" ?

[Flippi]

I found something about that 2 hour time interval in a cookie but I don't know how to handle this.
I was thinking about an extra parameter in the MPD-url but I don't know if something like that will work.

/index.mpd?aws.sessionId=xxxx&extra_parameter=yyyy

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[Karoolus]

I doubt that'll work tbh

[Flippi]

Very strange, is it a case of "watch from the start" ?

Yes indeed, it is possible now on the VTM GO website to go back to the beginning of the current live program (max. 2 hours).
The VTM GO webplayer knows how to handle this, but other players consider the beginning of the stream as "live" while in fact it's the live moment of 2 hours ago.

I'll try to do something with

ffmpeg -itsoffset -7200 -i inputfile outputfile

I've managed to find and decompile the java class-file in the script that handles the conversion of the stream.
Now I'm trying to find out how to recompile it because it's rather old source code that doesn't compile with recent java versions.
I'll try with Eclipse or with old java-versions on a VM and post my findings later.