[vlc-commits] youtube.lua: support live streams

[Pierre Ynard]

vlc | branch: master | Pierre Ynard <linkfanel at yahoo.fr> | Wed Oct 10 01:20:48 2012 +0200| [64e30497fa764f680c2b235757e49f6c83b85028] | committer: Pierre Ynard

youtube.lua: support live streams

This could use a bit more testing than a single video

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=64e30497fa764f680c2b235757e49f6c83b85028
---

 share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua b/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
index aef5d28..8d4144c 100644
--- a/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
+++ b/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
@@ -158,6 +158,16 @@ function parse()
                     url_map = string.gsub( url_map, "\\u0026", "&" )
                     path = pick_url( url_map, fmt )
                 end
+
+                if not path then
+                    -- If this is a live stream, the URL map will be empty
+                    -- and we get the URL from this field instead 
+                    local hlsvp = string.match( line, "\"hlsvp\": \"(.-)\"" )
+                    if hlsvp then
+                        hlsvp = string.gsub( hlsvp, "\\/", "/" )
+                        path = hlsvp
+                    end
+                end
             -- There is also another version of the parameters, encoded
             -- differently, as an HTML attribute of an <object> or <embed>
             -- tag; but we don't need it now
@@ -210,6 +220,16 @@ function parse()
         end
 
         if not path then
+            -- If this is a live stream, the URL map will be empty
+            -- and we get the URL from this field instead 
+            local hlsvp = string.match( line, "&hlsvp=([^&]*)" )
+            if hlsvp then
+                hlsvp = vlc.strings.decode_uri( hlsvp )
+                path = hlsvp
+            end
+        end
+
+        if not path then
             vlc.msg.err( "Couldn't extract youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script" )
             return { }
         end