[Nomorecocktails]

I am unable to download any CSPAN videos this morning via FFMPEG and m3u8. I was trying to get Chris McDaniel's concession speech from last night but I get input output error.

URL http://www.c-span.org/video/?320130-3/chris-mcdaniel-primary-night-speech

One thing is that as of this morning no CSPAN video is playing for me in any browser so there may be an issue with cspan.

Thanks.

[peterpan]

Try this... ;)

ffmpeg -i "http://cspan-148.c-spanarchives.org:1935/vod/_definst_/mp4:downloads/320/320130-3/320130-3-MP4-STD/320130-3-MP4-STD_01.mp4/playlist.m3u8" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc "cspan.mp4"

[blimey]

Another alternative method is single-use http. For this video it can be found on this page;

http://www.c-span.org/assets/player/ajax-player.php?os=android&html5=program&id=353152

The http string is quite long, like this expired example;

h..p://d19cp144waw2mw.cloudfront.net/trimmed/full/320/320130-3/320130-3-MP4-STD_01.mp4?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNl IjoiaHR0cDovL2QxOWNwMTQ0d2F3Mm13LmNsb3VkZnJvbnQubm V0L3RyaW1tZWQvZnVsbC8zMjAvMzIwMTMwLTMvMzIwMTMwLTMt TVA0LVNURF8wMS5tcDQiLCJDb25kaXRpb24iOnsiRGF0ZUxlc3 NUaGFuIjp7IkFXUzpFcG9jaFRpbWUiOjE0MDM3NDQxODZ9LCJJ cEFkZHJlc3MiOnsiQVdTOlNvdXJjZUlwIjoiOTcuMTE3LjE5NC 43MiJ9fX1dfQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIHKVWBEAXX562G7Q&Signature=NQRGyKPr8KbcgRbHrX2ukV3Lny1bfJg23AKheM8E y4vU9O1pWM13ZbULaqt~HVnRj6yvOngGV8kwayoPNIJpxAAlDz aLLSYi-6AYqyGQ7XRVNmZllFMVijillBaadXeji2q9O~0-XVi0XK~hX49H1zsdoRU8kQ1BbX4h1P8grK0_

You can also turn up this single-use http url by temporarily disabling flash (which enables html5 video on the page), or by using youtube-dl.