Stream from local m3u8 playlist file or stdin?

Is it possible to give streamlink as input an m3u8 on disk or piped in from stdin?

The following didn’t work

streamlink hls://file.m3u8 best -o out.ts
streamlink hls://file://file.m3u8 best -o out.ts
streamlink hls:///mnt/g/file.m3u8 best -o out.ts

It would also be nice if you could pipe in the url to an m3u8 or it’s contents directory via stdin. For example

echo $some_url | streamlink hls://stdin best -o out.ts
streamlink hls://stdin best -o out.ts < file.m3u8
curl ... | streamlink hls://stdin best | ffmpeg ...

[beardypig]

@zacklb @fishscene this has been merged now 😃

[beardypig]

@fishscene I have it working on a branch: https://github.com/beardypig/streamlink/tree/local-files. I need to update the docs to explain how to use it, but otherwise it seems to work pretty well…