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Using VLC to watch an m3u8 playlist at a URL with custom Referrer and User Agent
How to use VLC to watch m3u8 playlist at URL with custom HTTP referrer and user agent - open-vlc-m3u8-url-with-http.md
You don't want this website eating your CPU for 2 hours while you're watching your favorite Sunday afternoon content. Run VLC with command line flags to set the User Agent and Referrer. This will open VLC, and ensure that it makes HTTP requests to the m3u8 URL with the Referrer and User-Agent headers set to the values you provided.
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