This is a toy/research project whose primary goal is to familiarize with some of the technologies involved in multi-lingual video streaming. Using this program may violate usage policy of ArteTV website and we do not recommend using it for other purpose then studying the code.
We support both _single program pages_ and _program collection pages_. Every page is shipped with some embedded JSON data, example of such data can be found [here](https://git.afpy.org/fcode/delarte/src/branch/stable/samples/www/). From that we extract metadata for each programs. In particular, we extract a _site language_ and a _program ID_. These enables us to query the config API
This API returns a `ConfigPlayer` JSON object, a sample of which can be found [here](https://git.afpy.org/fcode/delarte/src/branch/stable/samples/api/). A list of available audio/subtitles combinations in `$.data.attributes.streams`. In our code such a combination is referred to as a _rendition_. Every such _rendition_ has a reference to a _program index_ file in `.streams[i].url`
As defined in [HTTP Live Streaming](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8216) (sample files can be found [here](https://git.afpy.org/fcode/delarte/src/branch/stable/samples/hls/)). This file show the a list of video _variants_ URIs (one per video resolution). Each of them has
As defined in [HTTP Live Streaming](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8216) (sample files can be found [here](https://git.afpy.org/fcode/delarte/src/branch/stable/samples/hls/). This file is basically a list of _segments_ (http ranges) the client is supposed to download in sequence.
As defined in [HTTP Live Streaming](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8216) (sample files can be found [here](https://git.afpy.org/fcode/delarte/src/branch/stable/samples/hls/)). This file references the actual file containing the subtitles [VTT](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebVTT_API) data.
The multiplexing (_muxing_) the video file is handled by [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/). The script expects [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/) to be installed in the environnement and will call it as a subprocess.