Program to stream m3u8 urlto rtmp in python using FLVStream .

import ffmpy
import subprocess
import shlex
import sys
import os

def execute(cmd):
    """ Function to execute a system command and return the output.
    """
    args = shlex.split(cmd)
    try:
        output = subprocess.check_output(args, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode("utf-8")
        return output
    except:
        return None

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # URL to the m3u8 file
    url = 'http://playertest.longtailvideo.com/adaptive/bbbfull/bbbfull.m3u8'
    # output RTMP URL
    output = 'rtmp://YOUR_RTMP_URL'

    # command to fetch key
    cmd = 'ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams ' + url
    output = execute(cmd)
    if output is not None:
        key = None
        # if key is present, fetch it
        if '#EXT