Having a hard time capturing a (CBC-aired) Shakespeare video

[twipley]

I'm having the heck of a hard time capturing a Shakespeare play which aired on CBC last week.

The stream is hosted at http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows...ID/2675010041/

I've installed numerous programs (such as video downloadhelper and livestreamer under Linux, and rtmpdump and Replay Media Catcher under XP), and spent quite a lot time, to no avail. (Although downloadhelper gave me the SD version of the play, weighing about 600 MB.)

I'd really, really appreciate a hand in capturing the HD version of this play. I'm moving out and I won't have Internet access for a year, and...

[twipley]

I forgot:

video downloadhelper yields the following link to the stream:

http://mobilehls-vh.akamaihd.net/z/prodVideo/entertainment/504/87/Stratford_KingLear_CBC_H264_20150904_,640x360_90,960x540_250,852x480_180,640x360_120,370x208_50,320x180_35,0kbps.mp4.csmil/4_a870b9d0fef60587_Seg1-Frag1?hdntl=exp=1442150028~acl=%2fz%2f*~data=hdntl~hmac=ad5c4aee3c1ddb9f79708f7af6ac3585cd2a3f9cb08a6a00f99e304889f92068&als=0,3,NaN,2,0,NaN,0,0,0,35,f,0,6980.15,f,s,KCMIVLLDOYVU,3.5.0,35&hdcore=3.5.0

EDIT: although that's probably for the SD stream, which is not the desired one.

[biezom]

hi

hds (.f4m) protocol

http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest=f4m&callback=jquery

livestreamer "hds://http://mobilehls-vh.akamaihd.net/z/prodVideo/entertainment/504/87/Stratford_KingLear_CBC_H264_20150904_,640x360_90,960x540_250,852x480_180,640x360_120,370x208_50,320x180_35,0kbps.mp4.csmil/manifest.f4m?hdnea=............................... pvswf=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.2/pdk/swf/flvPlayer.swf" best -o King-Lear.flv

with in red the link found with link.theplatform.com

hls (.m3u8) protocol

http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest=m3u&callback=jquery

livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://mobilehls-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prodVideo/entertainment/504/87/Stratford_KingLear_CBC_H264_20150904_,640x360_90,960x540_250,852x480_180,640x360_120,370x208_50,320x180_35,0kbps.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8?hdnea=....................." best -o King-Lear.ts

with in red the link found with link.theplatform.com

[twipley]

Thanks for the hand.

Livestreamer returns errors in both cases:

livestreamer "hds://http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest=f4m&callback=jquery pvswf=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.2/pdk/swf/flvPlayer.swf" best -o King-Lear.flv

returns

error: Unable to parse manifest XML: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 6 ('jquery({"metafile":"<smil xmlns=\\ ...)

and

livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest=m3u&callback=jquery" best -o King-Lear.ts

returns

error: Failed to parse playlist: Missing #EXTM3U header

[biezom]

Originally Posted by twipley

Thanks for the hand.

Livestreamer returns errors in both cases:

livestreamer "hds://http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest=f4m&callback=jquery pvswf=http://pdk.theplatform.com/5.6.2/pdk/swf/flvPlayer.swf" best -o King-Lear.flv

returns

error: Unable to parse manifest XML: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 6 ('jquery({"metafile":"<smil xmlns=\\ ...)

and

livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest=m3u&callback=jquery" best -o King-Lear.ts

returns

error: Failed to parse playlist: Missing #EXTM3U header

no open with your brother
http://link.theplatform.com/s/h9dtGB/xk3LiBMRL8dbQNMvnnarRV6jiOH_j1C0?mbr=true&manifest =f4m&callback=jquery

and you can find the f4m link

[twipley]

Hey man,

I called my brother and we did it together.

Now, with your image it worked! thanks a bunch.

I'll be paying it forward, as usual.


Yours,
twipley