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There's a direct media stream that VLC can open (with network stream):

https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/O...

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Much better quality, slightly better latency. Seems like it comes from the Periscope transcoding infrastructure. Found it on reddit here: https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/17uyblj/rspacex_int...

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Fantastic, much better quality. Thank you.

For those who almost never use VLC (like me), don't download and then open the file. Instead open VLC, Update it from its ancient version, and then File, Open Network Stream, paste in

https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/O...

then click Play. Enjoy.

It’ll open natively in Safari too.

Not mobile safari.

Worked on my iPhone 12 Pro ios17.1.1. My apologies if it doesn’t work for others, stock config.

My iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 17 shows a Play button crossed with a line in gray over a black background instead of loading, on Safari. Is there something else I need to do for it to work there?

> Seems like it comes from the Periscope transcoding infrastructure.

It's literally from Twitter livestream; they are just re-skinned Periscope.

You can even replace highlatency to lowlatency for better latency.

Imagine if the standard was this, a link that is opened by a native media player, rather than 14MB of js for a shitty stuttering inconsistent mess.

Too late now, but this also worked for streaming to Chromecast via VLC (which worked seamlessly from my Linux PC by just hitting Playback -> Renderer -> <my chromecast> and then opening it.

Thanks! Watching with mpv.

Fwiw mpv would also open the normal twitter link, thanks to yt-dlp

404 - NOT FOUND

Its over ...

Yeah I realized that right after posting. Looks like I got confused with the timezone, I expected it to be one hour later.

I recommend using an app that tracks that for you. I use SpaceXNow.

As expected, the launch is now complete. I won't spoil the results :D

Well, neither is the rocket.

More of a 500 class error on the rocket however.

Try / Catch / Explode.

Edit: This is basically how automated FTS works, folks. Follow parameters of the flight, and if an "exception" occurs, solve the situation by exploding the rocket over a safe spot, before it veers too much off course.

That's nice.

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