Can anyone help me record/save/capture/download from BBC iPlayer on a Mac OS X?

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Is there anyway that i can use my mac to record the

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2

listen again feeds?

for example some BBC listen again radio shows can be listened to for 7 days only. Can i record them as an mp3 or similar file to listen to offline?

ideally this needs to be done without having to listen to the programme whilst it saves. just download it as a file.

i know there are Replay Media Catcher and WM Recorder for windows that did this. Can i do it on Apple Macintosh?

thanks

Originally Posted by any ANONYMOUS forum user

Is there anyway that i can use my mac to record the

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2

listen again feeds?

for example some BBC listen again radio shows can be listened to for 7 days only. Can i record them as an mp3 or similar file to listen to offline?

ideally this needs to be done without having to listen to the programme whilst it saves. just download it as a file.

i know there are Replay Media Catcher and WM Recorder for windows that did this. Can i do it on Apple Macintosh?

thanks

Jaksta for Mac is the only RTMP stream recorder for Mac OS X that allows to download RTMP streams automatically.

You can also try to find RTMP URLs and other parameters of RTMP streams using WireShark and then download them with rtmpdump

[timelessbeing]

I am trying to save the documentary video at the end of this article:
_http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/02/sadats_dat.html
I am using Mac OS10.6.6

By looking through the browser cache, I found an XML file that the page accesses:
_http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/p00f6n4s

This is a portion of that XML file:

<media bitrate="800" encoding="h264" expires="2041-02-22T23:59:00+00:00" height="360" kind="video" service="intl_ibroadcast_streaming_medium" type="video/mp4" width="640">
<connection application="ondemand" authExpires="2011-02-24T07:36:23+00:00" authString="auth=daEcebncjdVa3bdcbcrd4asc4cVaEdAcVdI-bnzE_s-bWG-FooFJqDnKCqGoyJ&aifp=v001&slist=public/unsecure/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash8_v1_1;public/unsecure/1500kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0.mp4;public/unsecure/800kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Med_v1_0.mp4" identifier="mp4:public/unsecure/800kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Med_v1_0.mp4" kind="akamai" priority="5" protocol="rtmp" server="cp44293.edgefcs.net" supplier="akamai"/>
</media>

I then tried to use RTMPDump as follows:

rtmpdump -r rtmp://cp44293.edgefcs.net/public/unsecure/1500kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0.mp4 -u daEcebncjdVa3bdcbcrd4asc4cVaEdAcVdI-bnzE_s-bWG-FooFJqDnKCqGoyJ -V

And I get a server error

This is the verbose log:

RTMPDump v2.2d
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
WARNING: You haven't specified an output file (-o filename), using stdout
DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
DEBUG: Hostname : cp44293.edgefcs.net
DEBUG: Port     : 1935
DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:1500kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0
DEBUG: tcUrl    : rtmp://cp44293.edgefcs.net:1935/public/unsecure
DEBUG: app      : public/unsecure
DEBUG: auth     : daEcebncjdVa3bdcbcrd4asc4cVaEdAcVdI-bnzE_s-bWG-FooFJqDnKCqGoyJ
DEBUG: live     : no
DEBUG: timeout  : 30 sec
DEBUG: Setting buffer time to: 36000000ms
Connecting ...
DEBUG: RTMP_Connect1, ... connected, handshaking
DEBUG: HandShake: Type Answer   : 03
DEBUG: HandShake: Server Uptime : 683522438
DEBUG: HandShake: FMS Version   : 3.5.4.1
DEBUG: HandShake: Handshaking finished....
DEBUG: RTMP_Connect1, handshaked
DEBUG: Invoking connect
INFO: Connected...
DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 198 bytes
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: Property: NULL
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: Property: <Name:              level, STRING:	error>
DEBUG: Property: <Name:               code, STRING:	NetConnection.Connect.Rejected>
DEBUG: Property: <Name:        description, STRING:	[ Server.Reject ] : (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (CP44293.S162.0_public) is not defined.>
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking <_error>
ERROR: rtmp server sent error
DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 18 bytes
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: Property: NULL
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking <close>
ERROR: rtmp server requested close
DEBUG: Closing connection.

Can anyone help me out please?

Jaksta for Mac can download RTMP streams from BBC and other web-sites.

[nullacht]

Originally Posted by timelessbeing

I am trying to save the documentary video at the end of this article:
_http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/02/sadats_dat.html

RTMPDump v2.3:

rtmpdump --host "85.183.195.46" --tcUrl "rtmp://85.183.195.46:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp44293.edgefcs.net&auth=daEbhcjbIdhaybNdea9axaia0aMbacvdXbT-bnzICX-bWG-IpuEEqDnJCwHrwD&aifp=v001&slist=public/unsecure/1500kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0.mp4;public/unsecure/800kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Med_v1_0.mp4;public/unsecure/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash8_v1_1" --app "ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp44293.edgefcs.net&auth=daEbhcjbIdhaybNdea9axaia0aMbacvdXbT-bnzICX-bWG-IpuEEqDnJCwHrwD&aifp=v001&slist=public/unsecure/1500kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0.mp4;public/unsecure/800kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Med_v1_0.mp4;public/unsecure/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash8_v1_1" --port 1935 --protocol 0 --playpath "mp4:public/unsecure/1500kbps/curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0.mp4" -o curtia03-00043765-cairocalm_4x3_Flash9_Hi_v1_0.flv

RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              2521.48
INFO:   moovPosition          40.00
INFO:   width                 480.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              21.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       48000.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                6303700.00
INFO:   timescale             2500.00
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                121026560.00
INFO:   timescale             48000.00
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
461232.216 kB / 2521.44 sec (99.9%)
Download complete

[timelessbeing]

Stream Recorder, Jaksta did not detect this stream.

nullacht, thanks! How did you find the URL to use?
Does it matter if I use version 2.2 or 2.3? (I couldn't find a Mac intel32 build)
I think a lot of the rtmp arguments you used are redundant, are they not?

[nullacht]

Originally Posted by timelessbeing

nullacht, thanks! How did you find the URL to use?

Wireshark.

Originally Posted by timelessbeing

Does it matter if I use version 2.2 or 2.3? (I couldn't find a Mac intel32 build)

Maybe. Try it yourself!

Originally Posted by timelessbeing

I think a lot of the rtmp arguments you used are redundant, are they not?

It works and that is the main thing.

[timelessbeing]

That worked perfectly. Using to this method, I was able to download another stream on that site too. Thank you so much.

By the way, it took me a long time to hunt down the arguments I needed from the Wireshark capture. Is there a quick way to filter for it?

[davebwiseman]

Hi

I have just switched to a MAC. I used Freecorder on my PC to record programmes form the BBC which I can listen to on my iPod later.

I can't find an equivalent for the MAC. I tried 6 different products today but none would record from the input stream. They will all record from the microphone input but I want to record without having to keep quiet for an hour!

Any answers gratefully appreciated. As I have never used a forum before, I'd appreciate a direct response at davebwiseman@googemail.com

PS I have no problem purchasing a product if it does the job

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Originally Posted by davebwiseman

Hi

I have just switched to a MAC. I used Freecorder on my PC to record programmes form the BBC which I can listen to on my iPod later.

I can't find an equivalent for the MAC. I tried 6 different products today but none would record from the input stream. They will all record from the microphone input but I want to record without having to keep quiet for an hour!

Have you tried to use Jaksta for Mac?