Amsterdam Amiga 30th Show - Streaming Video on the Amiga

Hi All,

Just wanted to post some steps for anyone that wants to
watch the live video stream from the Amsterdam 30th
anniversary show on their Amigas...

First, you should make sure you have FFMpeg installed.
Don't forget to run the "Unpack" CLI script!

Then do these steps to find the video stream URL and to
play it with the FFPlay program included in the FFMpeg
package:

1. first open this URL in IBrowse...

http://cymtv7.cymtv.nl/goalbit-api/gp ... required/0/true/info.json

2. then use the "Webpage/DIsplay Source..." menu.

3. then copy all that text and dump it into NotePad.

4. find the string "hls_server_url". Just after that is a "http:".... that's the start of the "HLS" stream URL. The URL ends with ".m3u8".

5. copy that URL string.

6. edit the "\/"s in the URL into just "/"s.

7. open a shell

8. set the stack to 1000000

9. then do "ffplay <that URL> -infbuf"


OBVIOUSLY you should adjust the path to the FFPlay app's
location on your machine.

This works great on my Amiga X1000 as well as my old Amiga
XE-G4 with a Radeon 7000 card.

Good luck & Enjoy!

PJS

Unfortunately, FFPlay does seem to be a somewhat fragile
with dealing with the stream... so it freezes and
drops audio from time to time.

I find it will pick back up again occassionally. Other
times I quit and restart the stream (by closing the video
window - do not do ctrl-c in the console).

Tried the URL with MPlayer, but it didn't like it.

Good luck,

PJS

Ooops... Left out an step in what I posted... Added
above now. Need to change the "\/"s in the URL to just
"/"s.

;)

Now if only the stream were more reliable.... :/

PJS

@pjs

It's summer... Streams dry up...