[Andr3jx]

Hi all!

I discovered the program RTMPExplorer and liked it because it provides an easy way to download RTMP(E) videos using windows. Unfortunately the GUI is not userfriendly and it is not open source.

So I created the program RTMPExploreX.
RTMPExploreX (by Andrejx) is an extended improved userfriendlier version of RTMPExplorer.
It is open source, so everybody can contribute to the project: https://github.com/andr3jx/RTMPExploreX . The main part of the code was decompiled from RTMPExplorer and is written in C#.
You can download it here: https://github.com/andr3jx/RTMPExploreX/downloads
Screenshot: http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1694/screenyt.jpg

Don't forget to take a look at the README.txt
Have fun and tell me what you think :)

[KSV]

I also thought many times to make those improvements but never found time and motivation to do so. Thanx for the effort and making it opensource.

[Josan420]

work :) :)
thanks

[greenythebeast]

I'm just curious but is a RTMPExplorer type program possible on a Mac?

[chap]

Thanks:cool:

[Josan420]

not working with RTMPE STREAMS PORT 1934:(
http://zonytvcom.info/starsp.htm

[evol]

I'm just curious but is a RTMPExplorer type program possible on a Mac?

I was going to say grab the source and recompile using MONO but you will have no joy as it uses the easyhook dll's.

@Andr3jx thank you for RTMPExploreX

[karlo2105]

Thanks for your effort.
What browser does RTMPExplorerX use ?

[Andr3jx]

@Josan420
I know, I updated README.txt later. I forgot that it's not enough to change port in RTMPExploreX because rtmpsrv only listens at port 1935 and I didn't know streams using other ports to try out. I will try to fix this.
@karlo2105
As I wrote in README.txt it uses Internet Explorer like RTMPExplorer does. I tried to get it work with geckofx (Firefox) but had no success.

[Andr3jx]

@Josan420
As long as there is no fix you can do the following:
Download this program and run it:
http://www.quantumg.net/portforward_bin.zip
If you want to use port 1934:
Click Redirection => Add
Type: Port: 1934 Destination: 127.0.0.1 1935
Configure RTMPExploreX to use port 1934

[Josan420]

thanks Andr3jx
it worked with port forwarding:) :)
thanks man

[john3voltas]

@Andr3jx
Great work! This is almost perfect.
The only issue I have encountered is when I am trying to open a webpage with streams that has popups and/or redirects.
In such cases, RTMPExploreX opens the popup or redirects me to an advertising page before it starts playing the stream.
I mean, I know a lot of webpages that work just like that (if not all these days...).
There are other tools out there that have the same issue, like for instance 'streamtransport'.
Is there anything I should do in such cases to workaround this issue?
Is there anything you can do in future builds that fixes this behavior?
Thanks a bunch man.
Cheers

[evol]

Edit your host file or use ad blocking software like AdFender :)

[john3voltas]

Edit your host file or use ad blocking software like AdFender :)
Thanks for the tips.
As for changing my hosts file, what should it look like in order to stop the popus, etc?
Cheers

[evol]

Thanks for the tips.
As for changing my hosts file, what should it look like in order to stop the popus, etc?
Cheers

All the info you need can be found @ http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

[daMichael]

The program doesn't work with creativelive.com/live There is streaming video for the next 4 days (June 21-24)

The video is hosted by Ustream.

I have been able to download using rtmpdump on the command line piped thru mplayer (timecode issues). The latest save doesn't play in VLC. Not a recognized file.

[Bahman]

Thank you, Andrejx! ;)

[chap]

The latest save doesn't play in VLC. Not a recognized file.
http://savepic.net/2972861m.png (http://savepic.net/2972861.htm)

[Andr3jx]

@john3voltas
Another way to block the popups is to use a Web Debugging Proxy.
You can use for example Charles ( http://www.charlesproxy.com/ )
Open the page and take a look at the requests. Find the requests for popups do right-click and add them to charles black list.

@daMichael
You can record the stream using rtmpsuck. After sometime rtmpsuck will stop working but you can open the file Command.bat in the editor and see which parameters were used. Simply start rtmpdump using them and it should work. While it's recording you can open the videofile in vlc-player and watch it (or you can edit the parameters to use vlc-player directly) However the created file has wrong duration so you have to repair it somehow.

[Andr3jx]

I updated RTMPExploreX to version 1.1.
You can find it under the same URL: https://github.com/andr3jx/RTMPExploreX/downloads
Now you can use another port than 1935 without problems. If you choose an other port it uses a portfowaring tool (command line utility) and redirects the connection to 1935. Moreover it uses the process names of rtmpsrv/-suck to detect if they are running instead of cmd.exe.

[chap]

I updated RTMPExploreX to version 1.1.
You can find it under the same URL: https://github.com/andr3jx/RTMPExploreX/downloads
Now you can use another port than 1935 without problems. If you choose an other port it uses a portfowaring tool (command line utility) and redirects the connection to 1935. Moreover it uses the process names of rtmpsrv/-suck to detect if they are running instead of cmd.exe.
thanks:cool:

[Josan420]

thanks:) :)

[ka6_jeram]

I updated RTMPExploreX to version 1.1.
You can find it under the same URL: https://github.com/andr3jx/RTMPExploreX/downloads
Now you can use another port than 1935 without problems. If you choose an other port it uses a portfowaring tool (command line utility) and redirects the connection to 1935. Moreover it uses the process names of rtmpsrv/-suck to detect if they are running instead of cmd.exe.

Thank you, nice of you for doing this. It would be great if there is function to download subs too. Just a suggestion.

[Andr3jx]

@ka6_jeram
I don't know much about subtitles. Are they also transmitted over rtmp(e) or somehow different? Moreover I'm not sure if it is possible to get subtitles of every website. I think that different websites use different techniques to add subtitles so I would have to add the download-feature for many pages which would be much work.
Do you know some software which have this feature (maybe even open source)? Give me more information if you can..

[ka6_jeram]

@Andr3jx
I tried your software but unfortunately, rtmpsrv cannot detect any videos that I'm trying to download. About the subtitle, I use get_flash_videos and get_iplayer, but the only plugin that I know that can download subs from get_flash_videos is only Hulu.pm plugin ( but the sub needs further manual timing) and get_iplayer has its own built in subs downloader. I also download subs from iTV using sniffing method with Wireshark. iTV and iPlayer has .xml subs and Hulu has .smi file.

[ka6_jeram]

get_flash_videos and get_iplayer has this function. Maybe if you have spare time, perhaps you could produce something like get_iplayer for hulu.

[Andr3jx]

RTMPExploreX is a quite simple tool. It's not possible for me to extend it easy to add a subtitle-downloader or to make it save videos transmitted with other methods. It only redirects rtmp connection to port 1935 and the rest is handled by rtmpsrv/-suck. If they fail to detect the stream, I can't do much.
Moreover I'm not very experienced in saving protected streams (at this moment). I made RTMPExploreX only to make people capturing ordinary rtmp(e)-streams more comfortable.
If I will have enough time and knowledge, I will try to make RTMPExploreX better (or create an other tool).

[firehawk12]

Thanks for the tool! I just had a problem - I posted on the github, but I thought I'd repost here:

I tried to play a video at crunchyroll.com -
(random example - http://www.crunchyroll.com/bodacious-space-pirates/episode-25-the-pirates-council-begins-588952) - and the video does not play. I see an "you have an old version of javascript or flash video player" before the message disappear and a blank window appears where the video player should be.

I've tried a few other sites just to be sure it wasn't me, but it looks like I am unable to play videos in the browser in order to get the rtmpe links.

Is this something on my end? I got a friend to try it as well and he couldn't get videos to load in the rtmpexplorer window either.

[Andr3jx]

Hi!
I tried the stream with RTMPExploreX and could not reproduce your problem.
Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/403/screenshotcrunchyroll01.png/

I use Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9. Do you use an older version?
This problem occurs because Internet Explorer doesn't always handle scripts and redirects right. I will try to find a better way to suppress this behavior.

EDIT: I could reproduce the problem. The first time RTMPExploreX works, but if you choose an other video after this it stops to work and the video-area is blank. However the problem disappears if you clear Internet Explorers cache after it has loaded the videopage. I will add a possibility to clear the cache in RTMPExploreX.

[firehawk12]

Hi!
I tried the stream with RTMPExploreX and could not reproduce your problem.
Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/403/screenshotcrunchyroll01.png/

I use Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9. Do you use an older version?
This problem occurs because Internet Explorer doesn't always handle scripts and redirects right. I will try to find a better way to suppress this behavior.

EDIT: I could reproduce the problem. The first time RTMPExploreX works, but if you choose an other video after this it stops to work and the video-area is blank. However the problem disappears if you clear Internet Explorers cache after it has loaded the videopage. I will add a possibility to clear the cache in RTMPExploreX.

Wow, clearing cache works perfectly! Who knew that would be a problem. Thanks for the help. :)

[Dunlap]

Hi!
I tried the stream with RTMPExploreX and could not reproduce your problem.
Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/403/screenshotcrunchyroll01.png/

I use Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9. Do you use an older version?
This problem occurs because Internet Explorer doesn't always handle scripts and redirects right. I will try to find a better way to suppress this behavior.

EDIT: I could reproduce the problem. The first time RTMPExploreX works, but if you choose an other video after this it stops to work and the video-area is blank. However the problem disappears if you clear Internet Explorers cache after it has loaded the videopage. I will add a possibility to clear the cache in RTMPExploreX.

Unfortunately, I am having this issue and clearing the cache or cookies is not fixing the problem. I'm receiving the "update flash player" message (been done).

Any other suggestions?

[Andr3jx]

You can try to reinstall Flash Player completely. Does it work if you open the page in your Internet Explorer?
If nothing works then you can still try RTMPDumpHelper

[nave3d]

I just downloaded this and honestly have no clue what to do.

Im just fooling around right now trying to test it on random sites (cam4, youtube, tinychat, crunchyroll) but it doesnt to anything at all for me.

I open the program. it says cmd.exe. I click on monitor and go to a site and play a video and nothing happens at all.

[sirshambling]

I am trying this out and it looks very good but I'm getting a "Batch file not started" error message so RTMPserve isn't starting and the file isn't downloaded.

Can you help please? Thank you very much.

[someguy9]

Thank you for creating this program. I managed to download my video when no other methods would work.

[tonytinsay]

Hi Andre

when i upgraded to windows 10 rtmpexporeX does not work as may be its looking for flashplayer but Edge has the latest flashplayer pre-installed. So i tried IE as the default browser which has the latest flashplayer alos but still it wont work.

but when i tried youtube it says you need flashplayer to view this video ... but a few seconds later the rtmpexplorex browser successfully played the video. However, in many siteS like IWANTV.COM.PH the icons that i normally click to view and download the video do not appear hence i am unable to download.

is there a newer version so that it will run on IE or EDGE on windows 10?

is there also a version which runs on other browsers like google chrome, firefox, etc.?

hope help is available asap.

thanks.

[sonicfelipemt]

Problem found: RTMPExplorerX saves cookies from the sites we access.
Is there any way to deactivate cookies like we do in google chrome?
This program was the ONLY one which I was able to use and worked :c
Please, someone help > h <
I need to deactivate those damn cookies because some sites BLOCKS us from watching 2, 3 or more videos per day :c
Halp :c :eek: :(

[sonicfelipemt]

Aaaaaaaand, some players won't display the video because they won't install some things.
As it seems, it loads Microsoft EDGE instead o google Chrome when running the websites. Is there a way to change it to Chrome? Edge kind of stinks and sucks :c:confused: