How to download videos from PLUS 7 website (for an un-tecchy person)

[fandangozackryder]

Hi,

Although I have a smart DNS set up, I can still not view any videos in the following link and get a geoblock error:
https://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/home-a...e-early-years/

I want to be able to download videos offline from this link in the highest quality possible, though am quite clueless as to how to go about it.
I do have getflv, but again this does not seem to work and nor does a free trial version of Allavsoft.
I have never used RTMPdump (I think) but this seems so complex to understand - would I have to write a script to download? (that's the main reason why I am shying away from it). And there doesn't seem to be clear instructions on this (one person says something, another says another and not sure what is right anymore).
Are there are any other tools that would work?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[surya987]

youtube-dl + ffmpeg works fine put them in same folder and run.....

youtube-dl "https://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/home-and-away-the-early-years/-/watch/30294959/home-and-away-the-early-years-tue-8-dec/"

720p is best and download will start..subtitle are in dxfp format...easy download.. enjoy

[fandangozackryder]

Thank you very much for this start.
I downloaded the two, and put the youtube-dl in the bin folder of the ffmpeg.

However, I tried running the command (I have never run many at all before, but followed instructions from googling) and I obtained this error:

[fandangozackryder]

Hi.
Sorry a couple more questions.
I know you said 720p was the highest quality possible only in the link: https://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/home-a...rs-mon-30-nov/.
How did you know 720p was the highest?
And do I need to change any settings to get the 720p when using ffmpeg and youtube-dl?

Otherwise I have got the VPN sorted and am downloading one episode at the moment (seems like it takes about 30mins-1 hour to get the whole episode downloaded at the rate it's going at, though this isn't a major concern). Hopefully it works out.

Thank you so much!!! Really appreciate your help.

[fandangozackryder]

I have managed to successfully download.
I also have one more question - is there a code that converts the file downloaded to an mp4/mkv format with 0 loss of quality?
This is because I have an m3u8 file (which is not compatible with many programs to watch on), and hence would like to convert either to mp4/mkv.....so if there is a code that I have to input into cmd to convert to a user-friendly format, I would be grateful if you could let me know)

Hopefully, that's the last of my questions! Thank you in advance!!

[biezom]

Originally Posted by fandangozackryder

I have managed to successfully download.
I also have one more question - is there a code that converts the file downloaded to an mp4/mkv format with 0 loss of quality?
This is because I have an m3u8 file (which is not compatible with many programs to watch on), and hence would like to convert either to mp4/mkv.....so if there is a code that I have to input into cmd to convert to a user-friendly format, I would be grateful if you could let me know)

Hopefully, that's the last of my questions! Thank you in advance!!

hi

youtube-dl -g "https://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/home-and-away-the-early-years/-/watch/30294959/home-and-away-the-early-years-tue-8-dec/"

>>>>

http://c.brightcove.com/services/mobile/streaming/index/master.m3u8?videoId=4649128646001

ffmpeg -i "http://c.brightcove.com/services/mobile/streaming/index/master.m3u8?videoId=4649128646001" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -c copy home-and-away-the-early-years-tue-8-dec.mp4

[fandangozackryder]

WOW! Thank you so much biezom! This works) Perfect!!
Just have the other questions from the previous post left and then hmmm another few annoying questions to add if anyone could help please:

1) When using the above method of ffmpeg, I get these messages whilst downloading that say: "PES packet size mismatch" - and at particular times when this happens the output file seems to either skip that part of the video where the error occurs/or there is no audio for that part. However, playback of the video online at the link works fine - so my question is why is this happening? And is there a way to prevent this hiccup to the output file occurring? As at the moment it is affecting pretty much every download.

I think I have tried to download the same video twice and the PES packet size mismatch error seems to always occur at different times, compared to the first download.

2) Also, during the log file while downloading through cmd, there seems to be a comment near the 10 second part of the video that says "No longer receiving playlist 1, no longer receiving playlist 2, no longer receiving playlist 3" - what does this mean and is this problematic?

3) Finally, when using mp4 converter, if downloading direct from the website, I no longer need to put in youtube-dl for the download - so there is no longer any need for it if I just want mp4 format (of course in the high quality?).


Apologies if my questions sound too simple! Just a beginner here haha though I feel I have learnt a lot so far (I knew NOTHING before!). Thank you in advance and once again sorry if I've been pestering too much!