[johnnoblack]

i desperately need a solution to download/record streaming lectures off the 'Echo360' Lecture Capture Centre

our university moved to Echo360 this year and now we no longer have the option to directly download the lecture's mp4 file to our own computers
they are trying to restrict us to streaming
what can i do????
this is the website: http://echo360.com/
this is what we view the lectures on currently: http://echo360.com/echosystem/echosystem-player/

[Bahman]

They are using plain rtmp for streaming!!

for example, I tried:
Experience the New Echo player : UNC Medical School
http://content.echo360.com/ess/echo/presentation/a169134d-c699-415b-a23c-c2f5f02bb8cf

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://content.echo360.com/echo/_definst_/" -a "echo/_definst_/" -y "1111/1/a169134d-c699-415b-a23c-c2f5f02bb8cf/audio-video.flv" -o "audio-video.flv"
RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2011-12-22 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO: duration 3900.24
INFO: width 320.00
INFO: height 218.00
INFO: videodatarate 175.78
INFO: framerate 14.98
INFO: videocodecid 7.00
INFO: audiodatarate 31.25
INFO: audiosamplerate 22050.00
INFO: audiosamplesize 16.00
INFO: stereo FALSE
INFO: audiocodecid 2.00
INFO: filesize 104275144.00
361.114 kB / 14.08 sec (0.3%)

This was a presentation and they have made a xml playlist for streaming! You can get it so easy via "Coojah"!!
http://content.echo360.com/echocontent/1111/1/a169134d-c699-415b-a23c-c2f5f02bb8cf//presentation.xml
It has all Text, SWF file, Video files that you see in browser!! So you can just replace the name of them with the link and get those Swf file too!!
http://content.echo360.com/echocontent/1111/1/a169134d-c699-415b-a23c-c2f5f02bb8cf//slides/00090000.swf

btw, I got rtmp streams with Coojah too!!