AceStream in OpenSuse

Yesterday I was trying to watch Mcgreggor VS Khabib fight and realized I had to put this working on OpenSuse as it’s the distro I’m trying out.

It wasn’t as straight forward as in Ubuntu, but thanks to docker it got a lot easier than it should be.

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Packman repository
• VLC and codecs

How to use

Install Docker

We’ll start acestream as a docker container

sudo zypper install docker

Add packman repository

We’ll need it to download VLC codecs.

zypper ar -cfp 90 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/ packman

Leap_15.0 is opensuse’s version, check the appropriate one for you https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

Install VLC and codecs

sudo zypper install vlc vlc-codecs

Pull docker image

• Pull the image in advance:

docker pull magnetikonline/acestream-server

Clone acestream on docker repo

git clone https://github.com/magnetikonline/docker-acestream-server

Run scripts

Inside the repo you have cloned

• First, run the container -> ./run.sh
• Second, run the script to start streaming with VLC:

./playstream.py \
	--ace-stream-pid PROGRAM_ID \
	--player /usr/bin/vlc \
	--progress

Replace PROGRAM_ID with the acestream content ID.

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Hope it can help someone! And thanks to magnetikonline for creating the docker container.