streams stop after 2 minutes under specific condition

[makiele]

hi!
first of all, thanks so much for creating and maintaining this plugin, I love it so much, it has helped me a ton!

i am currently experiencing a quite specific issues i am not even sure is hls-proxys fault.

i use hls-proxy to inject the http-referrer of a website into their hls-streams.
thing is, this works perfectly fine for VLC, as well as iOS (IPTV Streamer) and Android (M3U IPTV).

it just doesn't work (correctly) on M3U IPTV (same developer as the Android-app) for my Samsung Tizen TV. when i start the proxied streams on my tv, they work for exactly 2 minutes and then stop, with the tv-app saying something along the lines of the stream has gone offline.

do you have an idea if i can fix that via a hls-proxy setting. already tried to contact the app-developer, but he didn't react to my question.

i'm running hls-proxy with sudo hlsd --port 8082 -v 4 --referer http://www.WEBSITE.com/ &

thanks a lot!

[warren-bank]

off-hand, I'd say that..

• since the stream plays for 2 minutes, then you're satisfying their Referer header
  • otherwise, it wouldn't play at all
• since it stops after a while, I'm guessing they use an IP whitelist
  • their "official" client probably uses a heartbeat
  • for example, it might make an XHR request to mothership once per minute to keep your IP on the whitelist.. and after 2 minutes your IP is removed from the whitelist
  • if so, you could easily write your own heartbeat