[Guide] Watch Afreeca SC/BW streams with VLC - Page 21

On September 19 2017 00:01 FlopTurnReaver wrote:
Am I the only one that doesn't have a "Plugins" folder in the Streamlink folder?

On September 19 2017 18:57 Sihrtogg wrote:
"No playable streams found on this URL: afreeca.com/aslenglish"
This is while it's playing on http://play.afreecatv.com/ASLEnglish
Is there a fix yet?

On September 15 2017 23:04 Aylear wrote:
Alright then. Interesting times.

1) A temporary fix is out.
      • Download afreeca.py (right-click and save as...) and place it in the plugins folder as specified in the OP
      • NOTE: Currently only Amazon AWS works! This is the reverse of previous!

2) Afreeca may be deliberately trying to break this and prevent it from working.

If they are trying to break it, it may be because people have used Streamlink to record videos from Afreeca to upload them elsewhere. If so then this is just a crackdown of one of the many ways this can be accomplished (and not even the simplest way), and therefore horribly misguided.

Plugin developers (the person who just created the fixed afreeca.py file in this post to be precise) have said that it should be a relatively simple (but time consuming) task to create a plugin that will always work. This means there should be a permanent fix eventually if one becomes necessary. In the meantime, here's hoping the current fix remains stable and that Afreeca stops trying to break this (if they are trying to).

Edit: Also if we're back to only one CDN, I'll update the .bat file appropriately. I'll wait a few days to see what the folks at Streamlink have to say about it though.

Edit 2: Added stuff about what may be happening to the plugin.

On September 21 2017 20:14 Suikakuju wrote:
I changed the new afreeca.py, but still get "No playble streams found" error message.

On September 21 2017 20:29 Drensa wrote:

It worked for me this morning. Did you select Amazon AWS? Cause that's the one you should choose now, GSCDN doesn't work.

On September 15 2017 15:58 HiDrAWaRx wrote:
I haven't been able to watch any streams from this amazing develop (always getting the "error: No playable streams found on this url: [...]" even knowing someone is live ) since a guy posted this thread on blizz forum:
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20758976068

Did they patched their service to make this unusable?

Edit: bwstreams app is not even working for me...

On September 19 2017 16:04 iCCup.Trent wrote:
The streams website is giving me "Error occurred" right now.

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< X-Cloud-Trace-Context: e86dca9601e5a85718a77015f18a0d56;o=1
< Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:00:08 GMT
< Server: Google Frontend
< Content-Length: 14
< Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="39,38,37,35"
<
* Connection #0 to host bwstreams.appspot.com left intact
Error occurred

On September 19 2017 16:04 iCCup.Trent wrote:
If I could get some intuition on how we're checking that the stream is up or not (from the stream url), I'm happy to update a stream list on a public Github repo and we can make an open source "stream is up" checker that everyone can use locally.

On September 22 2017 01:21 flashimba wrote:
Hi all, author of bwstreams.appspot.com here. Apologies in advance if I am hijacking and/or off-topic.

I have released the source for bwstreams on github - https://github.com/rmcat/bwstreams. I do not have much time to work on it lately. I've updated some stream list, thanks to Aylear's post and the bat file.

For those that may be interested, the live data is available in json format at https://bwstreams.appspot.com/streams.json.


Sorry about this error. Seems that the site hit its daily quota. The quota resets approximately in 15 hours from the time of this post. I've updated the site to try workaround the problem, so let's see if that helps.


afreeca.py may be of some help here.