xbmc
Can't get ffmpeg to use headers passed to it
I am trying to play some media with inputstream.ffmpegdirect on Kodi 21.1 on MACOS
I need to pass some headers as well as the stream info to get the URL headers = { "X-Plex-Token" : token, "X-Forwarded-For" : "173.166.164.121", "user-agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0"
}
The stream URL looks like https://epg.provider.plex.tv/library/parts/5e20b730f2f8d5003d739db7-646fab0e43d6d6838db81a6a?X-Plex-Token=nHD9WHxxk3uwKwL7VWhG
I am adding the headers to the URL with this bit of python x = "" for key in headers: x += u'{0}={1}&'.format(key, urllib.parse.quote(u'{}'.format(headers[key]).encode('utf8')))
And then putting it all together liz = xbmcgui.ListItem(path=url + '|' + x) liz.setProperty('inputstream', 'inputstream.ffmpegdirect') liz.setProperty('IsPlayable', 'true') liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.stream_mode', 'timeshift') liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.is_realtime_stream', 'true') liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.manifest_type', 'hls') xbmcplugin.setResolvedUrl(handle, True, liz)
looking at the log, it seems the initial curl works
CCurlFile::GetMimeType - <https://epg.provider.plex.tv/library/parts/5e20b730f2f8d5003d739db7-646fab0e43d6d6838db81a6a?X-Plex-Token=nHD9WHxxk3uwKwL7VWhG|X-Plex-Token=nHD9WHxxk3uwKwL7VWhG&X-Forwarded-For=173.166.164.121&user-agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Macintosh%3B%20Intel%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010_15_7%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/131.0.0.0%20Safari/537.36%20Edg/131.0.0.0&> -> application/x-mpegurl
But, the headers are ignored / changed later on
2025-01-07 16:03:30.260 T:332467 debug
i have attached the full log file kodi.log.txt
any pointers/help would be greatly appreciated!
https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.iptvsimple/blob/a5f312c20643889c2f73334be36bba995280fa6d/README.md?plain=1#L532
Now this is for iptvsimple, but maybe it works the same way for ffmpegdirect.
Thankyou, that helps with the unregognised headers - adding a ! in front of them helps, but FFMPEG is still sending different values compared to curl
Curl
2025-01-07 16:49:21.101 T:365241 debug
No sure how the end server feels about the ! in front f header X-Plex-Token and !X-Forwarded-For, but it seems to work ....
but FFMPEG values are messed up .....
025-01-07 16:49:21.105 T:365241 debug
My C skills are rather poor, but I modified inputstream.ffmpegdirect/src/stream/FFmpegStream.cpp line 2417 to become "CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::GetFFMpegOptionsFromInput() Nic DEBUG: adding user custom header option and value" "'%s: %s'", it->first.c_str(), value.c_str());
so I could see the values of the custom headers as normally they are ******** in the debug and rebuilt for a macos target and I see this
2025-01-09 16:03:15.208 T:1391206 debug
The values are 0 as opposed to what they should be. Will try and work out why, but if you have some pointers that would be great.
How exactly are you passing the headers? From what I recall only certain headers are passed through to ffmpeg. Maybe your specific ones are not in the valid list.
GetFFMpegOptionsFromInput() is the correct function. I see x-forwarded-for but not he plex one.
I tried passing attributes in a bunch of different ways. These are what I was trying to send - the ones that are not the standard ones that ffmpeg understands are prefixed with a ! |!X-Plex-Token',token,'!X-Forwarded-For','173.166.164.121','user-agent','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0'
Most basic way is x= 'X-Plex-Token',token,'!X-Forwarded-For','173.166.164.121','user-agent','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0' url = https://epg.provider.plex.tv/library/parts/XXXXX/ allurl = url + '|' + x
liz = xbmcgui.ListItem(path=allurl)
liz.setPath(allurl)
liz.setProperty('inputstream', 'inputstream.ffmpegdirect')
liz.setProperty('IsPlayable', 'true')
liz.setProperty('mimetype', 'application/x-mpegurl')
liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.stream_mode', 'timeshift')
liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.is_realtime_stream', 'true')
liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.manifest_type', 'hls')
liz.setProperty('inputstream.ffmpegdirect.open_mode', 'ffmpeg')
xbmcplugin.setResolvedUrl(__handle__, True, liz)
I noticed that headers don't seem to work or at least the respective log debug message is not printed for stream urls with .ts file extension
#EXTINF:-1, Video item
#KODIPROP:inputstream=inputstream.ffmpegdirect
#KODIPROP:mimetype=application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
#KODIPROP:inputstream.ffmpegdirect.is_realtime_stream=true
http://example.com/stream/stream.m3u8|User-Agent=otg/1.5.1 (AppleTv Apple TV 4; tvOS16.0; appletv.client) libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2o zlib/1.2.11 clib/1.8.56
Shows:
CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::GetFFMpegOptionsFromInput() adding ffmpeg option 'user_agent: otg/1.5.1 (AppleTv Apple ....
But for .ts CDVDDemuxFFmpeg doesn't seem to be used and cUrl is used for IO instead. I assume headers are passed to cUrl instead but not sure.
