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Play the ITV Player live stream (MP4) in system media player
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itv-player.php
<?php
// pip install livestreamer
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load('http://www.itv.com/ukonly/mediaplayer/xml/sim1static.xml');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$url = $xpath->evaluate('string(//ManifestFile/URL)');
$arg = sprintf(
'%s pvswf="%s"',
preg_replace('/^http:/', 'hds:', $url),
'https://www.itv.com/mediaplayer/ITVMediaPlayer.swf'
);
// add --output="filename.mp4" to save to a file
$command = sprintf('livestreamer %s best', escapeshellarg($arg));
//print $command;
exec($command);
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