[Feekner]

I have a trial for another month for Bell Fibe's Video-on-demand service and their Kids Suite VOD channel. The Kids Suite has all the episodes of this show I watched as a kid called The Edison Twins. I would like to grab these before by trial with the channel runs out.

I don't have any video capture cards or anything of the sort, but I can access my TV service through a web browser, including the VOD channels. The videos run through Silverlight. Looking at hte source code for the page playing an episode, I found the URL for the video and downloaded a 225MB wmv file. However, I cannot play it no matter what i use. Windows Media Player says one or more codecs are missing. VLC gives me:

Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "PRDY" (No description for this codec)
Unidentified codec:
VLC could not identify the audio or video codec

I assume this is something caused by DRM. Is there a way to full the DRM off of these videos? I have looked through some other threads, but they pointed to programs that had broken download links.

[Feekner]

Bump. Still looking for help.

[Moet]

Hi, I can't promise the will work but assuming that the files are Silverlight and are not DRM protected (and you run Windows) you can try the following.

You will need for this:

ismdownloader and ismdownloader AVC1. You can get them via the two links in red at the top of this page: http://md5decrypt.altervista.org/ismdownloaderavc1.htm

Unzip those files into their own folders on your desktop.

Install the Firefox extension called HttpFox (you can search for it in Firefox by going to tools>>Add-ons>> extensions and putting HttpFox in the search bar).

Once that is installed, open the ismdownloader folder on your desktop and open a command (CMD) window 'inside' that folder. To do this, find a blank area in the folder, hold down the shift key on your keyboard while you right-click with your mouse. You should see an option to "open command window here" - click that.

Now a little preparation...

1) Open a new text document

2) Grab the full path (address) of that ismdownloader folder and copy that in to your text document. To get the full path you can click in the blank space in the folder's address bar to the right of where it says ISMdownloader so the address changes to read something like:

C:\Users\IEUser\Desktop\ISMdownloader

Yours will be different to mine, obviously.

3) Paste that path in to your text file and add double quotes around it. Then add: ismdownloader " /Manifest" to the start of the line and at the end of the line add myvideo.mkv. You should end up with something like:

ismdownloader " /Manifest" "C:\Users\IEUser\Desktop\ismdownloader myvideo.mkv"

The info you get from the next step will be pasted after the double quotes that come after the word ismdownloader.

4)open HttpFox (it's under 'tools>> web developer) and in its search box type .ism - now click the HttpFox start button.

5) Visit your website and play your video. With any luck you will get just the one result in HttpFox. You might need to edit what you get so that it ends in .ism - Copy the address it gives so it goes before manifest in your text file. It should look like:

ismdownloader "http://The-Address-You-Found.ism/Manifest" "C:\Users\IEUser\Desktop\ismdownloader Video.mkv"

Copy that complete line and paste it in to the command (CMD) window you opened earlier. (On the top left of that CMD window is a tiny black box - click that and select 'edit' then 'paste' - Press 'Enter' (return)

If the gods are with you it will work. If not then repeat these steps but using the folder ismdownloader AVC1 - grab its full path and open a CMD window there etc.


You can practice these steps using the silverlight videos at http://smoothhd.com/

[Feekner]

I do run Windows, and the videos do play in Silverlight on the site. FreeMe2 says the videos do not seem to be protected.

But, no dice. Your method worked on the smoothhd.com site, however HttpFox did not find a .ism URL on the tvonline site from Bell. So it's using some other method, perhaps something Bell cooked up themselves.

Is there any way to see what method they are using by viewing the source code or one of the scripts called into the page?

Or, since I already have them downloaded, is there something I can do to get them to work? MediaInfo tells me the following (codecs bolded):

First video stream: English (US), 1 184 Kbps, 560*420 (4:3), at 24.000 fps, PRDY (AP@L1)
First audio stream: English (US), 96.0 Kbps, 44.1 KHz, 16 bits, 2 channels, 5052

[slim94]

I do run Windows, and the videos do play in Silverlight on the site. FreeMe2 says the videos do not seem to be protected.

But, no dice. Your method worked on the smoothhd.com site, however HttpFox did not find a .ism URL on the tvonline site from Bell. So it's using some other method, perhaps something Bell cooked up themselves.

Is there any way to see what method they are using by viewing the source code or one of the scripts called into the page?

Or, since I already have them downloaded, is there something I can do to get them to work? MediaInfo tells me the following (codecs bolded):

First video stream: English (US), 1 184 Kbps, 560*420 (4:3), at 24.000 fps, PRDY (AP@L1)
First audio stream: English (US), 96.0 Kbps, 44.1 KHz, 16 bits, 2 channels, 5052


What's a link to a show you're trying to grab? I can look.

[Feekner]

What's a link to a show you're trying to grab? I can look.

You can't get to it without my login credentials, and I am not sharing those because they are tied to my services. I've attached the source code for one of the pages. I had to zip it since the plain HTML was 22.6 KB, while the forum limit is 19.5 KB.

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[slim94]

You can't get to it without my login credentials, and I am not sharing those because they are tied to my services. I've attached the source code for one of the pages. I had to zip it since the plain HTML was 22.6 KB, while the forum limit is 19.5 KB.

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I didn't say i needed credentials, i simply asked for the URL of something you're trying to download.

[stinkfoot]

this edison twins programming yes being on anazon instant video. may being much easy getting there?

[Feekner]

I didn't say i needed credentials, i simply asked for the URL of something you're trying to download.

http://tvonline.bell.ca/tvonline/servlet/CommandServlet?command=watchonline&pageId=229&assetId=73155

this edison twins programming yes being on anazon instant video. may being much easy getting there?

I am in Canada and don't get Amazon Instant Video.