Help Downloading an RTMP Stream from Flash Video Object

[zdanman]

I read the stickies. I consider myself techsavy yet new to the video streaming world. Had a question about what command line I would use to download a video from the following example object....

The video players code looks like the following:

<object id="mediaplayer" width="100%" height="100%" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://yeah.com/assets/js/player.swf" bgcolor="#000000" name="mediaplayer" tabindex="0">
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true">
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always">
<param name="seamlesstabbing" value="true">
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<param name="flashvars" value="netstreambasepath=http%3A%2F%2Fyeah.com%2Fmembers%2Fvideos&id=mediaplayer&smoothing=true&bufferlength=10&skin=http%3A%2F%2Fyeah.com%2Fassets%2Fjs%2Fminima12.zip&file=mp4%3A81NlloBFFTwuv7H7We19%2Fja7HWrvj0gA8RzcPGc2l8crly3UcHXwQ&streamer=rtmpe%3A%2F%2Fs3.pepper.com%3A1937%2Fvideo&image=http%3A%2F%2Fyeah.com%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Fplayer.jpg&u=zdanman&controlbar.position=over">
</object>

Translated for the readers convenience, it contains the following parameters:

data="http://yeah.com/assets/js/player.swf"
netstreambasepath="http://yeah.com/members/videos"
id="mediaplayer"
smoothing="true"
bufferlength="10"
skin="http://yeah.com/assets/js/minima12.zip"
file="mp4:81NlloBFFTwuv7H7We19/ja7HWrvj0gA8RzcPGc2l8crly3UcHXwQ"
streamer="rtmpe://s3.pepper.com:1937/video"
image="http://yeah.com/assets/img/player.jpg"
u="zdanman"
controlbar.position="over"

What parameters would I put in the command line (running rtmpdump from command prompt)?

I tried the following:

F:\rtmp\rtmpdump-2.3-windows>rtmpdump.exe -r "rtmp://s3.pepper.com:1937/video" -o "f:\temp.flv"

Which returned...

RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playpath") containing a playpath

Please help!!!

[zdanman]

K so here is an update.... I tried the following command line and it came up with the following verbose output ('similar' to the following):

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://s3.pepper.com:1937/video" -p "http://yeah.com/members/videos" -W "http://yeah.com/assets/js/player.swf" -y "mp4:8
1NlloBFFTwuv7H7We19/ja7HWrvj0gA8RzcPGc2l8crly3UcHXwQ" -o "test234.flv" -V
RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
DEBUG: Protocol : RTMPE
DEBUG: Hostname : s3.pepper.com
DEBUG: Port     : 1937
DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:81NlloBFFTwuv7H7We19/ja7HWrvj0gA8RzcPGc2l8crly3UcHXwQ
DEBUG: tcUrl    : rtmpe://s3.pepper.com:1937/video
DEBUG: swfUrl   : http://yeah.com/assets/js/player.swf
DEBUG: pageUrl  : http://yeah.com/members/videos
DEBUG: app      : video
DEBUG: live     : no
DEBUG: timeout  : 30 sec
DEBUG: SWFSHA256:
DEBUG: c5 6d 08 73 89 dc 87 26 96 db 5d 8d 42 2b 02 78
DEBUG: 96 50 48 9d 07 58 71 df 96 5b 7a ea bc 67 53 d3
DEBUG: SWFSize  : 207192
DEBUG: Setting buffer time to: 36000000ms
Connecting ...
DEBUG: RTMP_Connect1, ... connected, handshaking
DEBUG: HandShake: Client type: 06
DEBUG: HandShake: DH pubkey position: 166
DEBUG: HandShake: Client digest offset: 879
DEBUG: HandShake: Initial client digest:
DEBUG: a1 65 36 a7 ad 70 e7 fe 81 59 39 15 53 c4 2c 38
DEBUG: 9c b9 4e 2b 95 ec 4f 0a f5 e0 45 da 5f de d4 5a
DEBUG: HandShake: Type Answer   : 06
DEBUG: HandShake: Server Uptime : 1980611102
DEBUG: HandShake: FMS Version   : 3.0.2.1
WARNING: Trying different position for server digest!
DEBUG: HandShake: Server DH public key offset: 772
DEBUG: HandShake: Secret key:
DEBUG: 43 14 2a 26 01 73 d3 8c 23 05 cd 2d 22 45 b1 dd
DEBUG: f8 a5 bd 84 9a 70 f4 b0 52 70 19 92 d4 ce cf 80
DEBUG: e2 6a 64 73 df e3 e5 32 22 dd aa 5f 09 1d 31 95
DEBUG: 54 9e 42 89 8d 4b 2b 7c fb 0a 3a 31 9b be 20 d0
DEBUG: 3f 62 fa 0a 8b 8c dc 82 a2 d2 35 f9 dd e1 99 1b
DEBUG: d7 e4 3a 95 c4 79 6e 79 62 33 6a 50 57 f4 25 da
DEBUG: e0 8b 22 d9 95 a3 a5 38 d1 65 19 bd 97 6c a1 1c
DEBUG: 04 f0 d1 18 1a e3 be 05 a2 ff cf 00 49 83 e9 4d
DEBUG: RC4 Out Key:
DEBUG: 13 0c 8b 47 51 5d aa e2 05 9d 4f 24 16 1b e1 e9
DEBUG: RC4 In Key:
DEBUG: 79 de ec 31 6e ec 60 8d 06 39 18 f5 4b 0c 0a f7
DEBUG: HandShake: Calculated digest key from secure key and server digest:
DEBUG: 86 61 8e 25 53 54 e4 67 c5 a3 06 5e 97 20 33 aa
DEBUG: 77 44 35 39 ed 5e 51 b7 1b 72 96 12 85 85 d3 44
DEBUG: HandShake: Client signature calculated:
DEBUG: 4a 5e 19 b9 fb 02 9b 6f d8 74 8c 50 00 32 82 6f
DEBUG: bc 33 3c 6e 2a 4a 7d 8d bc 60 0c 3c 7d c8 d0 13
DEBUG: HandShake: Server sent signature:
DEBUG: 0c 5b fc 89 57 3e b1 a2 4a a1 75 14 22 1b 11 4c
DEBUG: d7 54 a0 52 83 c4 97 fe c9 4c 64 f9 03 e9 06 a3
DEBUG: HandShake: Digest key:
DEBUG: 66 bf 82 fa 39 cb a3 99 d9 b0 05 3b ac 72 13 20
DEBUG: 84 ce 08 19 c6 f9 40 fb 65 fc a2 d9 74 04 09 58
DEBUG: HandShake: Signature calculated:
DEBUG: 0c 5b fc 89 57 3e b1 a2 4a a1 75 14 22 1b 11 4c
DEBUG: d7 54 a0 52 83 c4 97 fe c9 4c 64 f9 03 e9 06 a3
DEBUG: HandShake: Genuine Adobe Flash Media Server
DEBUG: HandShake: Handshaking finished....
DEBUG: RTMP_Connect1, handshaked
DEBUG: Invoking connect
INFO: Connected...
DEBUG: HandleServerBW: server BW = 2500000
DEBUG: HandleClientBW: client BW = 2500000 2
DEBUG: HandleCtrl, received ctrl. type: 0, len: 6
DEBUG: HandleCtrl, Stream Begin 0
DEBUG: HandleChangeChunkSize, received: chunk size change to 4096
DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 251 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:     Connection failed: Application rejected connection.>
DEBUG: Property: <Name:           clientid, NUMBER:     2002384877.00>
DEBUG: Property: <Name:        secureToken, STRING:     7ada86f7887ac77472145d5a328da97171eb22b9cbaea1fd95a682b568d43b1eef8bc643>
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.

The main line of focus is where it says:

Connection failed: Application rejected connection.

What gives?

[zdanman]

nothing?

[biezom]

Originally Posted by zdanman

nothing?

hi
1) please include link to the web-page with video
2) you use RTMPDump v2.3 it's an old version

[zdanman]

Figured it out due to a genius on this forum. They know who they are.

They let me know I was missing 2 things....

1. add the security token with the -T command line switch

example: -T "^056%5KPl{FCy"

They said you can find this token via different ways.... one way is here:

http://stream-recorder.com/forum/can...en-t18788.html

2. use the -C switch to send an arbitrary string containing the username to the RTMP server (im assuming)...

example: -C S:zdanman

So the final command line looked like this...

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmpe://s3.pepper.com:1937/video" -W "http://yeah.com/assets/js/player.swf" -p "http://yeah.com/members/videos" -y "mp4:81NlloBFFTwuv7H7We19/ja7HWrvj0gA8RzcPGc2l8crly3UcHXwQ" -T "^056%5KPl{FCy" -C S:zdanman -o "test234.flv"

Thanks a BUNCH!!!

[Edit]

Also forgot to add that I'm using the latest RTMP found here...

https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/rel...mpdump-2.4.zip