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

[ronlin99]

I recently had to have my computer re-imaged, and lost all my downloaded software/applications. So I downloaded URL Snooper and Livestreamer (v.1.12.2), and have attempted to continue capturing streams of games on watchespn.

I have been receiving nothing but “400 Client Error: Bad Request” on all attempted stream captures.

URL Snooper seems to be working fine, but I wonder if I’m doing something wrong with livestreamer. After download, I followed all the prompts to put it on my system, but I’m wondering if there’s something else I’m supposed to do.
Please advise and any assistance is greatly appreciated--
The game I’m trying to capture is the 03JULY game between the Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins from Fort Bragg, NC. I was trying to capture the version broadcast in Spanish.

livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://content.uplynk.com/ext/d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a/a19182490.m3u8?rn=381572751&linearv=4&ad.csid=watchespn:desktop:e3ads&ad.ulbd=1&eid=a19182490&ct=a&ad.kv=_fw_ae,d51f95cd19fecba66558f490554838ee&exp=1467858839&ptid=ESPN3_Events_VDMS&tc=1&oid=d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a&ad=e3ads&ad.caid=a19182490&euid=ESPN3_VDMS&sig=cc6a173f3617ac68070aa21c385f81e61c8b4fb1f368bcd367c6c76b8d0def28" best -o baseball.ts

[contimranvo1]

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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[mtepper27]

I am having the same issue as ronlin99 above. After learning how to download the watchespn streams, I haven't had a problem until just today, I've run into the 400 Client Error Bad Request message.

Why is this happening? Has WatchESPN stopped its viewers from being able to download the streams? It seems that the quality bars have upped from 7 to 8 bars. I wonder if that's the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[dmb341]

It's still possible to find an .m3u8 link, like for example this USA vs. Costa Rica Women's Soccer game: http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/...ize/condensed/ has the following path. (It seems like j.m3u8 is now the highest quality stream - it used to be i.m3u8.

http://content-ause3.uplynk.com/mult...504247c8902fa8

When I try to use this m3u8 link as an input and dump the file to my local drive, I'm getting all sorts of errors in framerate, video duration, etc. I think it's because the m3u8 is serving up a bunch of clips that are potentially encoded differently. I'm getting a lot of "Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0...This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file." errors in my ffmpeg output.

Anyone have ideas how better to dump these links? Livestreamer did a good job of putting everything together but it's now saying "Unable to open URL...(400 Client Error: Bad Request)" on the multiple.m3u8 and "error: No streams found on this URL" when you give a direct link to a j.m3u8 (or any other a.m3u8, b.m3u8, ect.)

[xela722]

Ive tried this technique on many different replays from espn and all of them have ended up with the same error.



I dont understand why this keeps happening. I believe I pulled the correct link from url snooper.



Can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong, i really want this to work in time for the LLWS.

[mikemiller]

Originally Posted by mtepper27

I am having the same issue as ronlin99 above. After learning how to download the watchespn streams, I haven't had a problem until just today, I've run into the 400 Client Error Bad Request message.

Why is this happening?

Originally Posted by dmb341

It's still possible to find an .m3u8 link, like for example this USA vs. Costa Rica Women's Soccer game: http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/...ize/condensed/ has the following path. (It seems like j.m3u8 is now the highest quality stream - it used to be i.m3u8.

If you're getting a "Bad Request" message, this means you need to work faster. Have everything queued up and ready to go in your command prompt, so that all you have to do is paste the link.

Speed matters.

[mtepper27]

Yes, I get it done in less than 10 seconds. I never had a problem with it previously when WatchESPN was 7 bars. Now that it has switched to 8 bars is when the problems arose. Thanks for the input.

[xela722]

Hey guys instead of using hlsvariant:// before the link just use hls://

This works for all livestreams on ESPN 3 and all replays on watchespn

[mtepper27]

I get "could not open stream" and "400 client error: bad request" when I use the exact same format as before with only hls:// in place of hlsvariant://