Please advise re recording stream from Africam.com

clemenzina · #1 10-04-2011, 05:20 AM

Windows 7 Home Premium, Firefox 7.

_http://www.africam.com/wildlife/potted_plant_owl_webcam

I record long sessions of the above footage, then skip thru with an editor and extract "interesting behaviours", upload to YouTube and post on the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) website. Am having to screen capture using
Debut (very easy to use, I'll say that for it) because I can't record the stream like I could with the RSPB's own wildlife cams.

I have bought Jaksta but it only records a few seconds, when it records at all. I can't get support from them as logs won't load on their website.

I wonder if a guru would kindly test the site and tell me if there's any chance of recording the stream, and if so, what with.

Many thanks,

clemenzina

KSV · #2 10-04-2011, 06:40 AM

Code:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://stream.africam.com/owl" -a "owl" -f "WIN 10,3,183,10" -W "http://www.africam.com/wildlife/files/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf" -p "http://www.africam.com/wildlife/potted_plant_owl_webcam" --live -y "live-owl" -o live-owl.flv

Code:

RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2011-09-30 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: rtmp server sent error
Starting Live Stream
1651.695 kB / 214.48 sec

clemenzina · #3 10-04-2011, 06:46 AM

Thank you KSV. None of that means anything to me, but I presume the ERROR near the bottom means that there's... an error

but it says Starting Live Stream after that

Do I take it that Jaksta was a waste of money in my case?

KSV · #4 10-04-2011, 06:50 AM

it means you can easily download that stream with free tools.

clemenzina · #5 10-04-2011, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clemenzina

I wonder if a guru would kindly test the site and tell me if there's any chance of recording the stream, and if so, what with.

In your first response "RTMPDump v2.4" in the panel - does that mean that that's a program you recommend? I'll have a look for it.

clemenzina

#6 10-04-2011, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clemenzina

I have bought Jaksta but it only records a few seconds, when it records at all. I can't get support from them as logs won't load on their website - looks like they're sharks

Have you tried to contact them without providing your logs? Were they able to replicate your problem?

Also you can always upload logs to some file sharing web-sites like mediafire and include the link into your support request.

clemenzina · #7 10-04-2011, 10:31 AM

Jaksta will only allow contact via logs, from what I can see. You write a message describing your problem but you have to perform an "exercise" with the program, including downloading a YouTube video that you don't already have in browser cache, whether or not it's related to your problem; then a log file is placed on desktop, after which you get a message to upload it.

I've tried umpteen times but the page won't load.

I'm so confused and fed up. It was so easy with VLC, I was in a fool's paradise

clemenzina

clemenzina · #8 10-04-2011, 10:51 AM

I've downloaded RtmpDump.zip and extracted that, double-clicked on rtmpdump.exe and it also required extracting and produced exactly the same group of files again

What do I execute in order to install it in a usable state?

#9 10-04-2011, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clemenzina

Jaksta will only allow contact via logs, from what I can see. You write a message describing your problem but you have to perform an "exercise" with the program, including downloading a YouTube video that you don't already have in browser cache, whether or not it's related to your problem; then a log file is placed on desktop, after which you get a message to upload it.

I've tried umpteen times but the page won't load.

I don't really now what you mean to "contact via logs".

The following page allows to contact the Jaksta for Windows support:
https://secure.jaksta.com/help/index...&department=69
The only required fields are email, name, message, windows version, priority.

What page are you trying to load? And what kind of problem exactly do you have with this page?

clemenzina · #10 10-04-2011, 10:02 PM

According to the instructions you have to run Jaksta in Debug Mode in order to get a support ticket, and you have to upload the resulting log file with your email. I have 6 log files on desktop from repeated attempts but have never been able to upload.

I don't suppose Malwarebytes could be blocking? But surely it would tell me. I added the Jaksta program to its ignore list, that didn't make any difference.

Funny, but I thought it was working fine when I had the trial program, but as soon as I paid...

Maybe I didn't test it on the relevant site, can't remember now.

Thank you for your time and thoughts, both of you