[GaiaLanzer]

So far I'm new to the majority of this. I mostly use Firefox's Download Helper and Flash Video Downloader to download videos, but some, particularly ones form local news sites, I just can't seem to download. Any tips in how I can go about and download videos like the ones on this page:

http://ktla.com/2014/12/30/winter-storm-prompts-warning-for-rose-parade-watchers-snow-level-to-fall-to-2000-feet/

or these:

http://abc7.com/weather/socal-snow-nearly-200-drivers-rescued-ortega-highway-closed/456192/

http://abc7.com/weather/video-grapevine-still-open-despite-snow/456374/

[surya987]

So far I'm new to the majority of this. I mostly use Firefox's Download Helper and Flash Video Downloader to download videos, but some, particularly ones form local news sites, I just can't seem to download. Any tips in how I can go about and download videos like the ones on this page:

http://ktla.com/2014/12/30/winter-storm-prompts-warning-for-rose-parade-watchers-snow-level-to-fall-to-2000-feet/


livestreamer hls://player.ooyala.com/player/all/FtMHJqcjphz3EOmfU-wl5z1hKNU4ugMm_900.m3u8 best


from 2nd stream

livestreamer hls://content-ause2.uplynk.com/dde13faf38724aebb5c7d01de4c041d0/g.m3u8?ad._v=2&ad=vod&ad.preroll=1&ad.fill_slate=1&ad.cping=1&pbs=ae52c142bb8946388064dfc1b5824e52 best

[GaiaLanzer]

Thank you, but how do I make use of these? Do they work with ffmpeg(I barely installed it into my system and been watching some YouTube tutorials, but still am pretty green with it)?

[troller12]

Sure its also working with ffmpeg too.Just use what you do prefer.Just lern the different parameters you have to use for the commandline tools xy. :) Commands you can find on the release sites of the tools and or in the tool itself.Just open cmd and enter ffmpeg --help.
ffmpeg --help
or with path of ffmpeg if needed...
c:\...ffmpeg --help
greetz

[GaiaLanzer]

Thanks to a advisable PM, I downloaded Livestreamer and was able to download the first of surya987's code lines worked fine(did the livestreamer "line of code" -p "filename.extension"). The second one kept giving me errors, saying "ad" and "ad.preroll" aren't recognized as an internal or external command, UNTIL I put quotation marks around the code(but after getting another error, put left "best" alone outside of the marks) and it worked.

Thank you, guys! You are all a godsend to this wet-behind-the-ears stream downloading noob!!:)

Only one question, where did you find the locations of these files? Particularly the second one. I tried the Ctrl+Shift+I thing and scanning through Web Console and couldn't find it anywhere.

[surya987]

use URLSNOOPER to sniff m3u8 link while playing......

Thanks

[strumpcarec]

Another option is to use rtmpdumphelper (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/rtmp_dump_helper.html), which automates the process so you don't need to manually type all of those different parameters.

I'm pretty new at this too and I find rtmpdumphelper really useful, but it doesn't work for every site. I think it is still valuable to download a sniffer, learn to use rtmpdump or ffmpeg, and learn to manually input the parameters. I'm still learning all of this myself. It's definitely not easy but I think the value of learning this stuff makes the hard work worth it.

[denobis]

ktla videos are supported in adownloader