Original Livestream.com stream closes after a few seconds

[expandables2]

Hi i am using livestreamer on the raspberry pi and every time I play an original livestream.com stream it closes in seconds.

[chrippa]

Please run with -v --loglevel debug and paste the output.

[expandables2]

[cli][info] Available streams: 0, 446k (worst, best) [cli][info] Opening stream: 446k (hls) [stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist [cli][debug] Pre-buffering 8192 bytes [stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 1523 to queue [stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 1524 to queue [stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 1525 to queue [stream.hls][debug] Download of segment 1523 complete [cli][info] Creating pipe livestreamerpipe-2428 [cli][info] Starting player: omxplayer -o hdmi [stream.hls][debug] Download of segment 1524 complete [cli][debug] Writing stream to output [stream.hls][debug] Download of segment 1525 complete Video codec omx-h264 width 512 height 384 profile 578 fps 30.000000 Audio codec aac channels 2 samplerate 44100 bitspersample 16 Subtitle count: 0, state: off, index: 1, delay: 0 V:PortSettingsChanged: [email protected] interlace:0 deinterlace:0 anaglyph:0 par:1.00 layer:0 [stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist [stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 1526 to queue [stream.hls][debug] Download of segment 1526 complete [stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist [stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 1527 to queue [stream.hls][debug] Download of segment 1527 complete [cli][info] Player closed [stream.hls][debug] Closing worker thread [stream.hls][debug] Closing writer thread have a nice day ;) [cli][info] Stream ended

[expandables2]

What does that mean and how can the problem?

[chrippa]

Make sure you have the latest version of omxplayer. It has been reported in the past to have bugs preventing normal playback but they might be fixed.

[expandables2]

I have the latest omxplayer from this http://omxplayer.sconde.net/ or is there another source for omxplayer?

[chrippa]

The Livestream.com streams are known to be badly encoded so it's possible omxplayer can't handle them. I suggest you try another player.

[expandables2]

What other player to use? I am using raspberry pi

[chrippa]

I'd recommend mpv if it's available for Raspberry Pi, otherwise VLC.

[stevekmcc]

For the record, the HLS issue was with omxplayer, which needs --timeout 20 otherwise it exits after 35-70 seconds (see streamlink issue 182). Your livestream command line should thus include: --player 'omxplayer --timeout 20'.

[aleczoeller]

@stevekmcc This solution is perfect - I set up a stream to autoplay via bash script at system startup, and it was failing after 20-30 seconds. Now it runs perfectly, thanks!