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UPDATE: Apparently they are willing to refund me via 3rd party company (Bluesnap) that handles paysafecard payment processor for them. And if that’s not enough, that I have to utilize 3rd party business to get my money back, guess what, they are unable to refund me directly to my paysafe account, they require my bank account name, IBAN and BIC. They make it almost impossible to get your money back. Avoid PureVPN scammers.

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So this is what happened. I was looking for a VPN service that does not require a credit card, because I don’t have one. Then I found PureVPN, they have a lot of payment options including paysafe card. I went to the gas station, purchased paysafe card and funded my account. I bought PureVPN 2 year package for 69$ with paysafe card. To my surprise, VPN stopped working few hours after the purchase was made. I’ve checked my email and received a messsage from them noticing me about my VPN account being disabled due security measures. They wanted me to verify my account by sending them a scan of my credit card. So, WTF, I bought their service with paysafe card because I don’t have a credit card, and they want me to verify the account with the credit card? Why would I even buy their service with paysafe card if I had a f*****g credit card? Where’s the logic behind that? I replied to their message and told them I don’t have a credit card and if they don’t like it they should just refund me. They replied with some bullshit generic text “about caring for the customers, jada jada, bullshit, more bullshit”. On the top of that email, they sent another generic mail noticing me that they will suspend my account if I don’t verify it, with a credit card. Really, did you even read what I’ve wrote the last time about not having a credit card? So, their lack of understanding about my situation and not mentioning it in the replies by just sending me generic non personalized emails tells me that they are scammers and they are stealing money from customers. Also, the service sucks, during a few hours I had a chance to test their service I tried many different servers on a different continents. I have a 220 mbit line but their VPN bandwidth never exceeded 50/60 mbit. So F*** you PureVPN scammers, you can keep my money and shove it up your a**. I will never recommend your fraudulent services to anyone else ever. DO NOT BUY PUREVPN.

TL;DR:

  • Bought PureVPN with paysafe card because I don’t have a credit card
  • They disabled my account and wanted verification by sending them a scan of a credit card that I obviously don’t have
  • They did not want to refund me, they ignored my issue about not having a credit card
  • Service sucks, low bandwidth
  • DO NOT BUY PUREVPN

1st security measure email:

My reply:

Their second and third reply:

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#!/bin/bash

# Rtsp to youtube streaming with ffmpeg

VBR="1000k" # Bitrate of the output video, bandwidth 1000k = 1Mbit/s
QUAL="ultrafast" # Encoding speed
YOUTUBE_URL="rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2" # RTMP youtube URL
THREADS="0" # Number of cores, insert 0 for ffmpeg to autoselect, more threads = more FPS

CAMUSER="user"
CAMPASS="password"
CAMIP="192.168.0.2"
CAMPORT="88"
VIDEOCHANNEL="videoSub" # videoMain and VideoSub for Foscam cameras

SOURCE="rtsp://${CAMUSER}:${CAMPASS}@${CAMIP}:${CAMPORT}/${VIDEOCHANNEL}" # Camera source
KEY="xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" # Youtube account key

# To download fonts
# wget -O /usr/local/share/fonts/open-sans.zip "https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/open-sans";unzip open-sans.zip
FONT="/usr/local/share/fonts/OpenSans-Regular.ttf"
FONTSIZE="15"

# Text allingment
x="5"
y="60"

# Other
box="1" # enable box
boxcolor="black@0.5" # box background color with transparency factor
textfile="ffmpeg.txt"
reloadtext="1" # Reload textfile after each frame, usefull for overlaying changing data 
# like weather info. To update the textfile while streaming, you need to use mv command or a crash
# is going to happen when you update the textfile.
# Example:
# wget -q https://something.com/ -O - | grep somevalue > ffmpegraw.txt; mv ffmpegraw.txt ffmpeg.txt
boxborderwidth="5"

# Ffmpeg with drawtext, 
    ffmpeg -loglevel panic \
    -f lavfi -i anullsrc \
    -rtsp_transport tcp \
    -i "$SOURCE" \
    -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset $QUAL -g 20 -b:v $VBR \
    -vf "drawtext="fontfile=${FONT}":textfile=${textfile}:x=${x}:y=${y}:reload=${reloadtext}: \
    fontcolor=white:fontsize=${FONTSIZE}:box=${box}:boxborderw=${boxborderwidth}:boxcolor=${boxcolor}" \
    -threads $THREADS -bufsize 512k \
    -f flv "$YOUTUBE_URL/$KEY"

# Copy stream only, don't encode
#ffmpeg \
#    -f lavfi -i anullsrc \
#    -rtsp_transport tcp \
#    -i "$SOURCE" \
#    -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset $QUAL -g 20 -c:v copy -b:v $VBR \
#    -f flv "$YOUTUBE_URL/$KEY"

Overlayed data over webcam stream example:

To run the script in background you need to add nohup otherwise ffmpeg will hang.

nohup bash this_script.sh &

Ffmpeg likes to crash from time to time. Create a script to check for ffmpeg process and restart it if there is no process running.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Description: Checks for existing ffmpeg process and starts one if needed
#
script=/path/to/first_script.sh

if ! pgrep -x "ffmpeg" > /dev/null
then
    /bin/bash $script > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi

Save script as check_ffmpeg.sh

chmod +x check_ffmpeg.sh

Run the script with crontab every minute.

crontab -e
* * * * * sudo bash /path_to_script/check_ffmpeg.sh

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Instal libav-tools

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libav-tools

Install youtube-dl

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Download mp3

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID

–audio-quality 0 means the best quality available
-o ‘%(title)s.%(ext)s’ will remove the ID from the filename

Download the file from a web browser (optional if you don’t have FTP, SFTP, are on a Windows bashless box)

For python bellow the version 3

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

For python 3 or higher

python3 -m http.server

Now just browse to http://your-server-IP:8000 and download the file