Help with video from Empire (playpath missing?)

mrswhite · #1 10-24-2014, 10:19 AM

Hi everyone.

I've been searching the forum for a while and trying different soft like: urlsnooper, streamtransport, rtmpexplorer to download the video from this url: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42554

Streamtransport and rtmpexplorer don't open the website in their embedded browser so they don't capture the rtmp command.

And when I'm trying it with urlsnooper I get the rtmp url but there is no playpath! I've always been able to get at least that but I'm unlucky so far...

Could you please help me out? I learned a lot from this forum but this is really a mystery.

This is the rtmp url i get from url snooper

Code:

rtmp://cp149510.edgefcs.net:1935/ondemand?videoId=3854221264001&lineUpId=&pubId=494806221&playerId=38042934650

From what I gather this is a brightcove video...

Thank you so much in advance.

hasomaso · #2 10-24-2014, 10:38 AM

Code:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp149510.edgefcs.net:443/ondemand" -a "ondemand?videoId=3854221264001&lineUpId=&pubId=494806221&playerId=3804293465001&affiliateId=" -f "WIN 15,0,0,167" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us20141016.1304/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf" -p "http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42554" -y "mp4:videos/494806221/201410/2560/494806221_3854328574001_Into-The-Dragons-Lair-Push-The-Performance-1080p.mp4?videoId=3854221264001&lineUpId=&pubId=494806221&playerId=3804293465001&affiliateId=" -o "output.flv"

Code:

RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2014-07-07 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration                86.26
INFO:   moovPosition            48.00
INFO:   width                   320.00
INFO:   height                  180.00
INFO:   videocodecid            avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid            mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile              66.00
INFO:   avclevel                13.00
INFO:   aacaot                  2.00
INFO:   videoframerate          23.98
INFO:   audiosamplerate         44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels           2.00
INFO: tags:
INFO:   ┬®too                   Lavf53.24.2
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                  258250.00
INFO:   timescale               2997.00
INFO:   language                eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype              avc1
INFO:   length                  3804160.00
INFO:   timescale               44100.00
INFO:   language                eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype              mp4a
195.058 kB / 6.84 sec (7.9%)

mrswhite · #3 10-24-2014, 10:41 AM

Wow! Thank you so much!! May I ask how did you get those parameters??

hasomaso · #4 10-24-2014, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrswhite

Wow! Thank you so much!! May I ask how did you get those parameters??

with Wireshark Bro

blimey · #5 10-24-2014, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrswhite

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42554

From what I gather this is a brightcove video...

It is brightcove. youtube-dl usually supports brightcove. There is also 720p quality available via progressive http;

Code:

http://bauermedia.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net/rtmp_uds/494806221/201410/2560/494806221_3854328590001_Into-The-Dragons-Lair-Push-The-Performance-1080p.mp4

mrswhite · #6 10-24-2014, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hasomaso

with Wireshark Bro

Thank you! I've been looking at Wireshark and trying it out following some youtube tutorials but all rtmp streams end up saying "unknown" ??? do you know what could be the problem?

i'd really like to learn so i can stop bothering and help others! thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by blimey

It is brightcove. youtube-dl usually supports brightcove. There is also 720p quality available via progressive http;

Code:

http://bauermedia.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net/rtmp_uds/494806221/201410/2560/494806221_3854328590001_Into-The-Dragons-Lair-Push-The-Performance-1080p.mp4

Woah! I've never heard of youtube-dl, but i'm going to try it out. I have python installed on my computer but i see there's also a desktop version. Thanks for the tip! Also I've never heard of "progressive http"? I'm reading about it now but i didnt know that's the way it was called when it's not streaming. Learning a lot today it seems. May I ask how to get that URL?

Thanks a lot!