Anybody want to crack the new code of WatchESPN streams (with 7 bars of quality)?

[mtepper27]

Originally Posted by cworsh4

From earlier in the thread

Instructions:
1.) Bring up your video you want to capture
2.) Bring up URL Snooper
3.) Ensure the Must Contain field in URL Snooper states http://content.uplynk
4.) Play the video—stop the video (close the viewer browser window) immediately when the URL Snooper collected the various URLs.
5.) Bring up livestreamer in the CMD prompt
6.) Create and enter the code:
livestreamer “hlsvariant://enter the URL from URL Snooper here” best –o name.ts
Remember:
--No space between the //and the URL
--End the URL with “
--Go over one space and best –o name.ts (could be lsu, vatech, etc—some term you can remember or find easily)
--For the URL, ensure you enter the URL that in the Protocol column, states:
http m3u8 file
(remove the x, p, or w in front of http should their be one)

Thank you very much for the detailed information. The only thing I think I'll have a problem with is how do I bring up the livestreamer in the cmd prompt? I'm trying but getting a long error message.

Update: I think I know how to do it now, so I'll try again and update if I still don't.

[mtepper27]

I did it! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Last question...

I did one game successfully, then on the 2nd game I did, it came out incomplete at 1:16 when the time of the game was 2 hours and 17 minutes. I tried it 3 times in .ts and .mp4 format, and each time it came out incomplete. Is this my fault or the fault of the espn3 stream?

[uncomfortablyscruffy]

Can anyone help me figure out livestreamer? When I enter the ESPN3 channel URL like so:

livestreamer "hlsvarient://http://content.xxx" best -o name.ts

I get a return like so:

error: No plug in can handle URL: xxx

I have VLC installed and it opens streams like Twitch/YouTube flawlessly.
I have also tried using the second .m3u8 that URL Snooper finds, under the protocol "xhttp m3u8 file" (have removed "x" from beginning of the link) as opposed to just the first "http m3u8 file" result. Same problem with both.

For those who cannot get it to work using Livestreamer, I was able to to use K-S-V's AdobeHDS and the HDS Link Detector add-on in Firefox to stream both ESPN and ESPN2. It will not work for ESPN3 as HDS Link Detector does not detect the link. Other than that, everything works great when streaming from the FLV. The only down side is that the max quality I was able to get was 896x504 with a bitrate of 2200. Like others have said, they protect the high quality streams pretty tightly.

[slim10]

[quote=uncomfortablyscruffy;83228]Can anyone help me figure out livestreamer? When I enter the ESPN3 channel URL like so:

livestreamer "hlsvarient://http://content.xxx" best -o name.ts

I get a return like so:

error: No plug in can handle URL: xxx

It should be "hlsvariant" not "hlsvarient."

[uncomfortablyscruffy]

Thank you so much! I have never been so happy to be an unobservant idiot. Working great for me now.

[dmb341]

It looks like WatchESPN may have changed things up slightly? I can find a "multiple.m3u8" link but livestreamer doesn't like it now. Ffmpeg can pull it down, but then it's running into "Non-monotonous DTS in output stream" errors at halftime where ESPN has inserted a "commercial break." If you scroll the playback bar in ESPN3 past halftime, when it comes back for the second half, the playback bar restarts at the beginning.

livestreamer had previously been able to pull each of the chunks out of the stream and concat them correctly (ffmpeg isn't quite doing it), but it doesn't like this new "multiple.m3u8" format. Any ideas?

*Edit: It's also interesting that the replays I'm looking at are clean feeds (no scorebugs or graphics) and not the program feed you usually see. I don't think I've ever seen that on WatchESPN.

[BusterAvis]

Livestreamer is downloading much slower from WatchESPN now than it used to.
Why?

[superhobo]

I'm getting errors from livestreamer now when i try to record WatchESPN videos. Is anyone else having troubles?

[bocrangsudep]

Originally Posted by BusterAvis

Hello, I'm about to show you two screenshots below, shown at the bottom of this message. The top screenshot of the two images below represents the old (and current platform for most) ESPN streams. The bottom screenshot represents what ESPN is doing for some of their new streams, and all of their SEC streams for SEC+ sports programs live and on demand. We already know how to download the old (current) method, for most WatchESPN videos (RTMP Dump Helper works, as does Replay Media Catcher). However, the 2nd of the two screenshots below, does not work for either RTMP Dump Helper or Replay Media Cather, at least it doesn't work when using the same procedure (maybe a different procedure will work?). Notice the difference between the two screenshots below. One has 4 bars, the other has 7 bars of quality. Several of the newer videos and the SEC+ videos on demand have 7 bars of quality and seem to be impossible to catch the stream and download it. But maybe someone can help. I'm not interested in recording off the screen (I already have Replay Video Capture, but prefer not to use that for ESPN streams, as I like catching and downloading the stream much better). Take this video link from below for example (if you have WatchESPN, please feel free to check on this yourself) .... Here's the link to an example of an ESPN3 video that can't be downloaded?: http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/2569576/ Notice how after clicking on that link above, there are now 7 bars of quality, instead of 4 bars. Now, I know a lot of the current ESPN3 (WatchESPN) videos still use 4 bars of quality. But I have a feeling that these new videos with 7 bars of quality will be the standard going forward at some point. That means it's possible for those out there (including myself) that download videos from ESPN3, well we might no longer be able to do so in the near future, unless we can crack this code for the 7 bar ones. So far, I've had no luck with these newer ESPN3 videos, which also include all the SEC (SEC+) videos. Can anyone help? Thanks. Please reference the "blue" circle that is manually added to both screenshots below (it is hard to see at first), but you can see in the 2nd screenshot that there are 7 potential bars of quality in the blue circle. I don't even know if the quality is different, but the WatchESPN videos in which there are 7 bars of quality seem to be encrypted differently than the traditional 4 bar videos, and so far the 7 bar ones seem to be impossible to download. Maybe there's a way to download it going the m3u8 file route? I have never failed to be able to catch and download the 4 bar ones. But I have never succeeded yet in getting any of the 7 bar ones. As always, please feel free to help. Thanks. [SIZE="5"]4 bars of Quality:[/size] [SIZE="5"]7 bars of Quality:[/size] [SIZE="5"]*Link* to 7 bars of Quality (example):[/size] http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/2569576/

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