A way to pass additional arguments to rtmpdump?

[ghost]

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Add a way to pass additional arguments to rtmpdump in script
E.g. I have a case, where i need to pass " -y mp4:k2hq/10/100/00818/0061.mp4:0_1 -R" to rtmpdump for it to be able to successfully download the media.

[yan12125]

Currently it's impossible. Which video requires these options?

[ghost]

this is the video stream where that argument will download at least a bit of video: rtmp://kanal2-egress.cdn.mind.ee/kanal2vod/k2hq/10/100/00818/0061.mp4:0_1

[yan12125]

Did you get this URL from some web page? -y, which is an abbreviation of --playpath, (roughly) indicates the full path to a video file. This information is usually available on the web page.

[ghost]

i got it from a xml file(http://kanal2.postimees.ee/video/playerPlaylistApi?id=20737), which i got in turn from here: http://kanal2.postimees.ee/pluss/video/?id=20737

[yan12125]

Duplicate of #3651.
If you already know the playpath and the URL, you can use rtmpdump directly:

rtmpdump --verbose --playpath k2hq/10/100/00818/0061.mp4:0_0 -r rtmp://kanal2-egress.cdn.mind.ee:80/kanal2vod -o output.flv

What youtube-dl should do is parsing the XML. There's no need to provide an option to passing additional parameters in this case.

[ghost]

sorry if i forgot to mention but i'm making a script, and that's where i need to pass additional arguemnts to rtmpdump

def _real_extract(self, url):
        video_id = self._match_id(url)
        xmlfile = self._download_xml(update_url_query('http://kanal2.postimees.ee/video/playerPlaylistApi', {'id': video_id}), video_id)

        title = xpath_text(xmlfile, './playlist/video/name')

        for stream in xmlfile.findall('./playlist/video/streamItems/streamItem'):
          url = xmlfile.find('./playlist/video/streamItems').get('host') + stream.get('streamName').replace('k2lq','k2hq')#.replace(':0_1','')
          break

        return {
            'id': video_id,
            'title': title,
            'url': url,
            'rtmpdumpargs': " -y mp4:k2hq/10/100/00818/0061.mp4:0_1 -R" }

notice the last line of code, that's the thing i don't find any way to do

[yan12125]

Oh, you need:

'play_path': 'mp4:k2hq/10/100/00818/0061.mp4:0_1',
'rtmp_real_time': True,

See youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py for more possible parameters.

[ghost]

Thanks, I was looking at that file before but must've looked over these