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// new Rant("help needed!")

I really need some help guys! Would be nice if you could checkout

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...

and help me out if possible :) Got some problems with ffmpeg on OS X not streaming https urls.
And if these kind of rants aren't supposed to be posted/created please tell me so. I am still not familiar with the overall flare of this community ;)

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  • 0
    How did you originally install ffmpeg? If it was with brew, you need to pass in an additional option when you install it:

    brew install ffmpeg --with-openssl
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    That's what I did. It defaults to the use of the apple encryption library (because opensssl is deprecated on osx), this behaviour can be seen from the parameters passed to configure (--with-opencl).
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    @tytho it seems that https is installed somehow (calling ffmpeg - protocols returns https) but still it doesn't work.
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    @SirWindfield This was what I found, appears that some people had the same issue, but maybe yours is slightly different. I'd maybe try uninstalling ffmpeg, updating brew, then reinstalling it:

    https://github.com/Homebrew/...
    http://superuser.com/questions/...
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    @tytho I completely uninstalled home-brew, removed all folders associated with it and reinstalled it only running ffmpeg and mplayer. Doesn't work.
    Looks like mplayer doesn't support https protocol urls. I simply removed the s, making the protocol http and it worked. Is this a bad "hack"? Because I can't see any other change of accomplishing it.
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    It's not the worst thing in a world, but for me it would leave in itch in whatever I was trying to maintain
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    @tytho Ye I know that feeling. Is there some alternative to mplayer that can can stream https urls?
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    I'm not super familiar with mplayer, or ffmpeg for that matter. Does mplayer come with ffmpeg? Relooking at the SO question it might be a different library that needs to be built with openssl
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