youtube live streamer

[ashlee24]

Hi,

I have seen that there is youtube software for downloading youtube video's but does anybody know of any software to find the url of a youtube live video??
if you put the url of a live youtube video in vlc player it just freezes

example : the url for al jazeera news is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg, if you put this address in vlc it will freeze.

Any help will be much appriciated.

Many thanks

[jimdagys]

Maybe somebody can come up with a better idea. You can record the live stream with this (but cannot watch while downloading):

youtube-dl -f 93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg

You can pipe the stream into vlc using this:

youtube-dl -f 93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg -o - | "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -

However, when you do that, then youtube-dl doesn't simultaneously save to a file.
If you press the red record button on vlc while the video is playing (see screenshot, red circle) , then vlc will record the video to a file.
Even though the video as watched in vlc may start/stop/pause/resume, the recorded vlc file should play perfectly. Something seems strange, though because the command line shows I was downloading at about 10fps, so it seems that some video would be lost in the vlc recording.

[jagabo]

Sometimes you can play the video file while it is downloading (eg, use VLC to open the file that youtube-dl is saving) but it doesn't work for this video.

[jagabo]

I thought there might be a way to pipe the video to ffmpeg and have ffmpeg remux to a .ts file that could be played while the video was still downloading.

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg" -o - | "G:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i pipe:0 -c copy -f ts output.ts -

But I couldn't get it to work. ffmpeg complains about the container not being suitable for the streams:

    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DA
R 16:9], q=2-31, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, 129 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Input #0, mpegts, from 'pipe:0':
  Duration: N/A, start: 1.400000, bitrate: N/A
  Program 1
    Metadata:
      service_name    : Service01
      service_provider: FFmpeg
    Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709, progress
ive), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 60 tbc
    Stream #0:1[0x101]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 123 kb
/s
[NULL @ 034375e0] Requested output format 'ts' is not a suitable output format
output.ts: Invalid argument
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Broken pipe
Error writing trailer of pipe:: Broken pipeframe=  156 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 Lsize=    2437kB time=00:0
0:05.20 bitrate=3835.3kbits/s speed=29.3x
video:2163kB audio:85kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 8.448
796%
Conversion failed!

I'm probably doing something wrong here but I don't know ffmpeg well enough to figure it out. I tried other containers like m2ts, mkv, mp4 and got the same error.

[Anonymous]

Maybe somebody can come up with a better idea. You can record the live stream with this (but cannot watch while downloading):

youtube-dl -f 93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg

You can pipe the stream into vlc using this:

youtube-dl -f 93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg -o - | "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -

However, when you do that, then youtube-dl doesn't simultaneously save to a file.
If you press the red record button on vlc while the video is playing (see screenshot, red circle) , then vlc will record the video to a file.
Even though the video as watched in vlc may start/stop/pause/resume, the recorded vlc file should play perfectly. Something seems strange, though because the command line shows I was downloading at about 10fps, so it seems that some video would be lost in the vlc recording.

What does -f 93 in the link mean?

[jagabo]

-f 93[/B] in the link mean?

It's the id of the particular stream you want to view/stream. To see a list of the available streams use:

youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg

Note the capitol F rather than lower case f.

prompt>youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading m3u8 information
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for WAt9ZT2CQWg:
format code  extension  resolution note
91           mp4        256x144    HLS  197k , avc1.42c00b, mp4a.40.5@ 48k
92           mp4        426x240    HLS  338k , avc1.4d4015, mp4a.40.5@ 48k
93           mp4        640x360    HLS  829k , avc1.4d401e, mp4a.40.2@128k
94           mp4        854x480    HLS 1380k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2@128k
95           mp4        1280x720   HLS 2593k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2@256k
96           mp4        1920x1080  HLS 4715k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2@256k (best)

[Anonymous]

-f 93[/B] in the link mean?

It's the id of the particular stream you want to view/stream. To see a list of the available streams use:

youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg

Note the capitol F rather than lower case f.

prompt>youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading m3u8 information
[youtube] WAt9ZT2CQWg: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for WAt9ZT2CQWg:
format code  extension  resolution note
91           mp4        256x144    HLS  197k , avc1.42c00b, mp4a.40.5@ 48k
92           mp4        426x240    HLS  338k , avc1.4d4015, mp4a.40.5@ 48k
93           mp4        640x360    HLS  829k , avc1.4d401e, mp4a.40.2@128k
94           mp4        854x480    HLS 1380k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2@128k
95           mp4        1280x720   HLS 2593k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2@256k
96           mp4        1920x1080  HLS 4715k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2@256k (best)

Thanks

[aazerty]

Hi all ,

Below my try

livestreamer "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt9ZT2CQWg" best -o Try_18102017.mp4

Try_18102017.mp4 is watchable with MPV

Cheers .

[ashersolomon]

does this allow to start recording YT live videos? Like those never ending chill out music for studying videos?