VLC service discovery of CCC VOC event streams

CCC VOC provides live streaming of Chaos Computer Club events, OSS related conferences and other nerdy stuff. This script implements automatic service discovery of these streams in the VLC media player.

Installation

Get a terminal and download the script

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agnat/c3voc-vlc-sd/master/c3voc.lua

Linux

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/sd
mv c3voc.lua ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/sd/

Mac OS

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/sd
mv c3voc.lua ~/Library/Application\ Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/sd/

Windows

Download the script by any means necessary. Then move it to %APPDATA%\vlc\lua\sd ... I think.

Kown Issues

VLC service discovery scripts are not truely dynamic. They only fetch content once on first view. On Mac OS I found a trick to re-trigger the script.

1. Deselect the "CCC VOC Streaming" entry in the sidebar. (Select "Podcasts" or something)
2. Right-click on "CCC VOC Streaming" and disable it.
3. Select "CCC VOC Streaming" again. This re-enables the script and triggers a reload.

Unkown Issues

Fork and fix or file an issue.