[ustream] add support for live streams (was: ustream doesn't work)

[amq]

When trying to download a live video from ustream youtube-dl doesn't get past "Downloading webpage" (it keeps repeating it). Adding a common user-agent didn't help.

[jaimeMF]

Post the output of running youtube-dl THE_USTREAM_URL --verbose.

[amq]

youtube-dl.exe" http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'cp1251', fs 'mbcs', out 'cp866', pref: 'cp1251'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ustream:channel] euromajdan: Downloading webpage
[ustream:channel] 16573315: Downloading webpage
[ustream:channel] 16573315: Downloading webpage
[ustream:channel] 16573315: Downloading webpage
[ustream:channel] 16573315: Downloading webpage
[ustream:channel] 16573315: Downloading webpage
[ustream:channel] 16573315: Downloading webpage

[jaimeMF]

We currently don't support downloading the live streams.
With that urls we download the archived videos, in this case it has a lot of videos and takes a while to extract all of them.

[amq]

Well, you support youtube live streams.

But if you don't support them for ustream, that's ok, let this be a feature request then :)

[jaimeMF]

But that's ustream, not youtube. Anyway I have never tested the youtube live streams, so I don't know how well they work.

[PlasmaPower]

Could someone add the site-support-request label?

[nurupo]

@dstftw @yan12125 it would be very useful to have support for live stream downloading on Ustream, as right now youtube-dl supports only downloading of already archived Ustream videos. I need live stream downloading because, for some reason, Ustream has this 3-hour limit on their archived videos, so if a stream is longer than 3 hours, it gets cut into 3 hour long videos and archived like that. e.g. a 7 hour long stream would be cut and archived as 3 videos: two 3hour long and one 1 hour long, totaling the 7 hours. Here is an example of that. The way Ustream cuts those videos is not perfect so when downloading those 3-hour videos and then putting them together you end up with gaps between videos, which is rather undesired. This could be avoided if youtube-dl could download the video as it's being livestreamed.

Sorry for highlighting you like this, this issue thread is rather old and I'm not sure if any of the current maintainers/contributors of youtube-dl would notice me commenting in here otherwise.

[Symbian9]

I need live stream downloading because, for some reason

For watch live-streams (from UStream, YouTube, Twitch, etc.) there is another Python-app — Streamlink

• https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/6bww7o/if_you_like_youtubedl_you_might_like_this/

So, just install both: youtube-dl (for recorded) & streamlink (for live-streams)

[nurupo]

I ended up using streamlink for UStream live streams.