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milesrichardson / open-vlc-m3u8-url-with-http.md
Created July 10, 2024 21:50
How to use VLC to watch m3u8 playlist at URL with custom HTTP referrer and user agent

Imagine this: it's Sunday afternoon at 1pm, and you want to watch some live content. But you don't have a TV subscription. So you do a little Googling, and eventually you find yourself on a sketchy website where you can watch the content you're looking for. But while the website has a video player, it's surrounded by advertisements, and probably a cryptominer too. You don't want this website eating your CPU for 2 hours while you're watching your favorite Sunday afternoon content.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch that video in VLC instead? Then you can close the sketchy website and still watch your content. It's like having your cake and taking a bite of it too!

Here's how you do it:

  1. Capture the m3u8 request in dev tools. Open the site (or just the iframe, if possible) in DevTools and click "play." Search the network tab for m3u8 and grab the first request.

  2. Run VLC with command line flags to set the User Agent and Referrer. From the request body, you need to copy the requested URL,

@tmcw
tmcw / progress.tsx
Created October 17, 2022 20:56
import { Portal } from "@radix-ui/react-portal";
import clsx from "clsx";
import { useAtom } from "jotai";
import { atomWithMachine } from "jotai/xstate";
import { useRouter } from "next/router";
import { useEffect } from "react";
import { assign, createMachine } from "xstate";
import clamp from "lodash/clamp";
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thesjg / TileContentProvider.java
Last active December 12, 2015 01:58
/*
* Needs a tile layer, something like (for Leaflet) ..
*
* var tl = L.tileLayer("content://com.pahasapatrails.m.tiles/{style}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png",
* { style: "XXX", minZoom: 9, maxZoom: 13, tms: true });
* map.addLayer(tl);
*
*
* Also needs a provider entry under the application tag in the Android
* Manifest, something like the following ..
@Warry
Warry / Article.md
Created December 11, 2012 00:11
How to make faster scroll effects?

How to make faster scroll effects?

  • Avoid too many reflows (the browser to recalculate everything)
  • Use advanced CSS3 for graphic card rendering
  • Precalculate sizes and positions

Beware of reflows

The reflow appens as many times as there are frames per seconds. It recalculate all positions that change in order to diplay them. Basically, when you scroll you execute a function where you move things between two reflows. But there are functions that triggers reflows such as jQuery offset, scroll... So there are two things to take care about when you dynamically change objects in javascript to avoid too many reflows: