[FFmpeg-user] How to download video stream starting at an earlier time?

Reino Wijnsma rwijnsma at xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 19 01:46:49 EEST 2021


On 2021-08-17T13:44:20+0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-I6UugaFs [...] but what I need is a way to record earlier video that is still accessible in the stream (as shown in a browser). 

That Youtube url is a livestream (video-url: "https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/[...]/index.m3u8") and as far as I know you can't "timeseek" a livestream.
If it is possible in browser, then the source most likely isn't the livestream.

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Reino



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