C-SPAN Captures

[Samizdat]

Use the rtmpdump command line and file sequences outlined below to capture Senator Rand Paul's fourteen-hour filibuster of 2013-03-06 on C-SPAN2:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://s1g3v4ljhhuslz.cloudfront.net:443/cfx/st/mp4:2013/03/06/20130306105954002_hd.mp4" -o a.mp4

This command line will capture the beginning of United States Senator Rand Paul's fourteen-hour filibuster, (which starts at minute 48 of hour 11 [ file 20130306105954002_hd.mp4 ] of 2013-03-06 C-Span Senate proceedings and continues with hours 12 through 24 [ files 20130306115954002_hd.mp4 through 20130306235954002_hd.mp4 ]).

In a followup reply to this post, I will provide a quick Wireshark tutorial showing how to get the rtmp URL used on the rtmpdump command line.

[Nomorecocktails]

There is an easier way to get Rand Pauls' filibuster. The Senate makes all their videos available for download as MP4.

[Samizdat]

Originally Posted by Nomorecocktails

There is an easier way to get Rand Pauls' filibuster. The Senate makes all their videos available for download as MP4.

The Senate claims to make all their videos available for download as MP4. Show me.

I make the Rand Paul filibuster available for download as MP4: https://archive.org/details/paul20130306

As to rtmpdump and Wireshark, do you think their use is limited to C-Span? Do you think folk who put "capture" in their search engine might be looking for that primarily, and C-Span secondarily, if at all?
In the latter case, they can find in my Internet Archive item a fourteen-hour filibuster in the time it takes their browser to load the page. Whereas in the case of your Senate "download as MP4" video archive, they will find nothing.