Live streaming of DConf 2016: confirmed

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On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 01:49:14 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 01:37:10 UTC, mate wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 01:09:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 22:21:58 UTC, mate wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Yes, you can get new stream URLs from the JSON metadata for 
>>> each video.  For example, the first video is at 
>>> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/86352137, so load up 
>>> http://api.ustream.tv/videos/86352137.json and look for the 
>>> flv URL with the tcdn.ustream.tv domain.  Copy it, remove the 
>>> forward slashes before the back slashes, and paste it into 
>>> VLC.
>>
>> Thanks for the technique. But it does not seem to work. I 
>> extracted the following from the json, which gives me an HTTP 
>> 403 forbidden error:
>> http://tcdn.ustream.tv/video/86352137?preset_id=1&e=1462512507&h=1f78b567afc5eda10df1be84e0786704&source=api
>
> Your link works for me in VLC, are you trying to download it or 
> something?  The video is dark for first five seconds, but you 
> can hear crowd audio right away.

Oh yes it works on VLC on Android! Sorry. It does not on VLC (nor 
via browser) on my laptop.
Below is a UNIX command to extract the flv URL from the JSON’s.
   wget -O- 2>/dev/null http://api.ustream.tv/videos/86352137.json 
| grep -o 'flv":"[^"]*' | cut -d\" -f3 | tr -d \\\\

Thanks.