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Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
September 02 2017 17:12 GMT
#321
The_Red_Viper is correct.

Some streamers (Horang2 does this some times) will occasionally set their streams to adults-only (19+) mode. When a stream is in adults-only mode, you have to use the Korean AfreecaTV Player (proprietary software) to view it, or Afreeca will refuse your connection.
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Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17250 Posts
September 02 2017 20:24 GMT
#322
When they're in that mode they're basically never actually playing either, so I wouldn't worry too much about not being able to view them. Usually means they're stalking the camgirls again.
twitch.tv/cratonz
AManHasNoName
Profile Joined September 2017
United States165 Posts
September 04 2017 12:36 GMT
#323
This was working for me up until this morning. Now I'm getting the error pasted below. I tried redownloading the afreeca.py file and replacing it again, but the same thing happens.

Error is coming up on all streams on all different quality settings. It also comes up regardless of whether I use the TL streamer name or their afreeca username.

If you have any advice it would be greatly appreciated. This workaround has been amazingly nice for watching these streams without lag! =D

[cli][error] Try 1/1: Could not open stream <HLSStream('http://live-hls-korea-cf.afreecatv.com/livestream-04/auth_playlist.m3u8?aid=.A32.7bbT56vyHM9fKZk.ZmYBzoIy-iAP1GUPu0sCkMGCkL-rLxBv9NjSBMa9A4n2Av-4QxdT7ezkataIG0RoeKF80Z1QiW1F_OZ-qRnxiEtRIVEN4gSKfQ3B8K22cfA')> (Could not open stream: Unable to open URL: http://live-hls-korea-cf.afreecatv.com/livestream-04/auth_playlist.m3u8?aid=.A32.7bbT56vyHM9fKZk.ZmYBzoIy-iAP1GUPu0sCkMGCkL-rLxBv9NjSBMa9A4n2Av-4QxdT7ezkataIG0RoeKF80Z1QiW1F_OZ-qRnxiEtRIVEN4gSKfQ3B8K22cfA (HTTPConnectionPool(host='live-hls-korea-cf.afreecatv.com', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /livestream-04/auth_playlist.m3u8?aid=.A32.7bbT56vyHM9fKZk.ZmYBzoIy-iAP1GUPu0sCkMGCkL-rLxBv9NjSBMa9A4n2Av-4QxdT7ezkataIG0RoeKF80Z1QiW1F_OZ-qRnxiEtRIVEN4gSKfQ3B8K22cfA&aid=.A32.7bbT56vyHM9fKZk.ZmYBzoIy-iAP1GUPu0sCkMGCkL-rLxBv9NjSBMa9A4n2Av-4QxdT7ezkataIG0RoeKF80Z1QiW1F_OZ-qRnxiEtRIVEN4gSKfQ3B8K22cfA (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x0387F2F0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed',))))
error: Could not open stream <HLSStream('http://live-hls-korea-cf.afreecatv.com/livestream-04/auth_playlist.m3u8?aid=.A32.7bbT56vyHM9fKZk.ZmYBzoIy-iAP1GUPu0sCkMGCkL-rLxBv9NjSBMa9A4n2Av-4QxdT7ezkataIG0RoeKF80Z1QiW1F_OZ-qRnxiEtRIVEN4gSKfQ3B8K22cfA')>, tried 1 times, exiting
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
Suikakuju
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany238 Posts
September 04 2017 12:47 GMT
#324
Same for me.

Can´t open any stream now
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
September 04 2017 16:56 GMT
#325
I've seen that happen a couple of times, but trying several times in a row with different CDNs and quality options always makes it work eventually.

Just now I tried to connect to BeSt and got the same error you guys did, but switching to GSCDN instead of Amazon AWS worked fine. I was able to open his stream in any quality after that.

VLC+Streamlink has been less consistent lately, with a couple of disconnects and odd stuff happening, but it's still functional.
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QuickStriker
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3694 Posts
September 04 2017 19:02 GMT
#326
Hi everyone,

I can confirm that this little program was super useful to me past few days when restreaming and casting ASL4 Qualifiers.

Big shout out to Aylear for letting me know about this and helping me set it all up!~
www.twitch.tv/KoreanUsher
AManHasNoName
Profile Joined September 2017
United States165 Posts
September 04 2017 19:51 GMT
#327
On September 05 2017 01:56 Aylear wrote:
I've seen that happen a couple of times, but trying several times in a row with different CDNs and quality options always makes it work eventually.

Just now I tried to connect to BeSt and got the same error you guys did, but switching to GSCDN instead of Amazon AWS worked fine. I was able to open his stream in any quality after that.

VLC+Streamlink has been less consistent lately, with a couple of disconnects and odd stuff happening, but it's still functional.



Thanks for the reply! I was able to get it working with GSCDN as well. Really appreciate you putting this out there for all of us to use ^_^
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
pheer
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
5390 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-04 20:46:03
September 04 2017 20:43 GMT
#328

Alternative portable version


This download is the portable windows build, with the afreeca plugin patch already applied. All you have to do is extract it and run the batch file. You will need to have VLC installed too. Install VLC quickly from www.ninite.com
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Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
September 04 2017 21:39 GMT
#329
Well, that's useful. Will update the OP once I'm done with my programming project today.
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Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-04 21:45:06
September 04 2017 21:42 GMT
#330
Wow, that's annoying. Typing in a name constantly outputs the [Streamlink for Windows v0.7.0 - Git b657864] message and breaks the look of the input box. Is that because it's the portable version or has that been added to a nightly?
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pheer
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
5390 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-04 22:19:07
September 04 2017 21:56 GMT
#331
I think the portable version outputs that extra text. I will replace the binary and re-upload if it works.

edit: doesn't work. Not sure if you can suppress its output in the batch file...
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Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-04 22:48:33
September 04 2017 22:37 GMT
#332
On September 05 2017 06:56 pheer wrote:
I think the portable version outputs that extra text. I will replace the binary and re-upload if it works.

edit: doesn't work. Not sure if you can suppress its output in the batch file...

I think I can only turn it off by setting Streamlink to quiet, or turning off error messages entirely. At that point it becomes harder to find out why streams aren't connecting (since it won't tell you if the player is offline or whatever).

Edit: Actually I can't even do that. The loglevel option doesn't even work in whatever build this is, it ignores my requests for it to be quiet.
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Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17250 Posts
September 05 2017 00:59 GMT
#333
On September 05 2017 06:42 Aylear wrote:
Wow, that's annoying. Typing in a name constantly outputs the [Streamlink for Windows v0.7.0 - Git b657864] message and breaks the look of the input box. Is that because it's the portable version or has that been added to a nightly?

There's no reason to use the nightly in the first place, you know.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
September 05 2017 01:26 GMT
#334
On September 05 2017 09:59 Craton wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 05 2017 06:42 Aylear wrote:
Wow, that's annoying. Typing in a name constantly outputs the [Streamlink for Windows v0.7.0 - Git b657864] message and breaks the look of the input box. Is that because it's the portable version or has that been added to a nightly?

There's no reason to use the nightly in the first place, you know.

There's only recent builds available for the portable version, you know.
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iCCup.Trent
Profile Joined May 2005
Argentina450 Posts
September 05 2017 06:35 GMT
#335
I can confirm that the issue is fixed for me after I choose "gs_original" for the stream quality. However, the stream becomes a little choppy as compared to aws (again, this is for a VDSL in Auckland, New Zealand; mileage may vary).
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
September 05 2017 06:38 GMT
#336
Yes, any gs_quality will work, as the gs_ prefix is GSCDN. What was nice about having both AWS and GSCDN was that one CDN was frequently better than the other depending on your location. Being limited to just GSCDN for the time being means some people will have to lower the stream quality to HD.
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Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
September 05 2017 07:50 GMT
#337
Minor update to the .bat file (nothing related to Amazon AWS being offline, we'll deal with that later).


Changelog:

Made the output messages less ambiguous when launching streams (thanks pheer!)

Added players to the .bat file:
• Action
• goatrope
• Sero

Added several synonyms to the Korean ASL stream (previously you had to type "aslkor" to find it):
• afstar1
• asl
• starleague

You can grab it here: Starcraft Stream Viewer.bat
TL+ Member
Arvendilin
Profile Joined February 2013
Germany1878 Posts
September 05 2017 08:07 GMT
#338
Is there a way to use this with MPC instead of VLC? since VLC fucks with colour saturation
My heroes: Jangbi, Bisu, Stork and BeSt for BW, Rain, Zest and Stats for SC2! Need a better Signature tbh...
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-05 08:34:10
September 05 2017 08:31 GMT
#339
On September 05 2017 17:07 Arvendilin wrote:
Is there a way to use this with MPC instead of VLC? since VLC fucks with colour saturation

Streamlink does technically work with MPC, but you'll need to mess with the .bat file a bit. More on that in a bit.

I haven't added native support for MPC because 1) extra work for me, and 2) some command lines are missing. Most notably --file-caching and --network-caching don't work, but you also can't add a meta title to an MPC window. When VLC pops up, it properly titles the window with the name you input, i.e. Bisu, Stork, Flash. MPC can't do that, so the window title remains something generic like "stdin".

Anyway, to use this setup in MPC you need the following:
- At least version 1.7 of MPC (1.6 or below will give file not found errors)
- Edit the bat file with the following values:

Open the .bat file in notepad++ or notepad. Near the top of the file you'll see this line:
set vlcpath=

...which by default is blank. Type in the path to your MPC player, i.e.
set vlcpath=C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe

Next, scroll down to the bottom of the .bat file and find the following line:
start /B streamlink --loglevel=error --player="%vlcpath% --file-caching=5000 --network-caching=5000 --meta-title=%name%" %url%/%id% %output%

Change this line to:
start /B streamlink --loglevel=error --player="%vlcpath%" %url%/%id% %output%

...which removes the "--file-caching=5000 --network-caching=5000 --meta-title=%name%" bit since MPC can't use those.

This worked on my system just fine.

Edit: If there is sufficient interest, I can make it so the .bat file accepts MPC by default as an option when you launch it. Let me know if this is something anyone else wants, otherwise I'm sticking with the basic VLC setup.
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Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2748 Posts
September 05 2017 12:42 GMT
#340
Works great, very good error / trouble shooting part of both the guide and the commandline bat. Thanks a lot!
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