Audio/video stream recording forums (http://stream-recorder.com/forum/index.php)

- Video stream recording (http://stream-recorder.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4)

- -

www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

(http://stream-recorder.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4297)

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

Quote:

Originally Posted by IKnowNothing (Post 26646)

@GetFLV
Sorry for the delay. I was trying to grab http://www.channel4.com/programmes/s...ds/4od#3173283

The latest version of GetFLV (Version 9.0.0.0) is (again) able to download CHANNEL4 / 4OD videos, such as

Code:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/supersize-vs-superskinny-kids/4od/player/3173283

the full-length streaming url is something like the following and includes your ip address and downloads either through port 1935, 80, or 443; the streaming server is ll.securestream.channel4.com or ak.securestream.channel4.com or similar:

Code:

rtmpe://ll.securestream.channel4.com:1935/a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301305313&ip=93.96.179.128&h=4db6b4ec4d0b2b7e1e46d9f892875e2a/?e=1301305313&ip=93.96.179.128&h=4db6b4ec4d0b2b7e1e46d9f892875e2a

rtmpe://ll.securestream.channel4.com:443/a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301342335&ip=178.238.142.242&h=36aca5121fb2a95a96a2bceb48a19cd0

Then GFLV captures all kinds of different rtmp/rtmpe streams, some url's for the commercial ads and ~2 url's for the actual video. Try to download the 2nd video url! Two typical situations are the following (and delete the ads url's!):

(click to enlarge)

Typically only one video url downloads well. And, you can download several videos at a time (here: Come Dine With Me)

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

rtmpdump doesnt download! (see screenshot)

Code:

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://ll.securestream.channel4.com:1935/a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301315907&ip=77.246.173.28&h=2b5230e50260319c5f11b10c239d25d7" -a "a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301315907&ip=77.246.173.28&h=2b5230e50260319c5f11b10c239d25d7" -f "WIN 10,2,152,32" -W "http://www.channel4.com/static/programmes/asset/flash/swf/4odplayer-4.85.2.swf" -p "http://www.channel4.com/programmes/supersize-vs-superskinny-kids/4od/player/3173283" -C Z: -y "mp4:xcuassets/CH4_08_02_900_47177002001001_002.mp4?e=1301315907&ip=77.246.173.28&h=2b5230e50260319c5f11b10c239d25d7" -o CH4_08_02_900_47177002001001_002.flv

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

channel4 is a bit harder than itv. so here another proof (screenshots), ta-rah!

GOOD NEWS. getflv posted an updated version on their website (today!!):
GetFLV Version 9.0.0.0,
and with it i was able to download the video!! :eek:

the FIRST (line#1) and the LAST line (line#6) belong to the same (actual) video clip. the url's in between, lines #2-#5, belong to the ads (commercial clips of ~40secs length). i waited until all ads were gone and until line#6 appeared. then "Download" and GFLV begins to download the video without problems.

GFLV downloaded the following url:

Code:

rtmpe://ll.securestream.channel4.com:80/a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301338326&ip=178.238.142.242&h=b7e0c6f007f45b95f92a06f11929438f

!!GREAT JOB AND BIG THANKS GOES TO THE GETFLV SUPPORT TEAM!!

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

RTMPDump v2.3 r563 works perfectly. RTMPDump v2.1d should also work.

Code:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/4od#3173458

RTMPSRV:

Code:

RTMP Server v2.3

(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu; license: GPL



Streaming on rtmp://0.0.0.0:1935



rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://ll.securestream.channel4.com:1935/a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301353360&ip=202.64.29.221&h=2496b8f5db0c050c2f22434f3440b55a" -a "a4174/e1/?ovpfv=1.1&e=1301353360&ip=202.64.29.221&h=2496b8f5db0c050c2f22434f3440b55a" -f "LNX 10,2,152,27" -W "http://www.channel4.com/static/programmes/asset/flash/swf/4odplayer-4.85.2.swf" -p "http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/4od#3173458" -C Z: -y "mp4:xcuassets/CH4_08_02_900_51044001001001_001.mp4?e=1301353360&ip=202.64.29.221&h=2496b8f5db0c050c2f22434f3440b55a" -o CH4_08_02_900_51044001001001_001.flv



Closing connection... done!

RTMPDump v2.3 r563:

Code:

RTMPDump v2.3

(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL

Connecting ...

INFO: Connected...

Starting download at: 0.000 kB

INFO: Metadata:

INFO:   duration              1452.08

INFO:   moovPosition          28.00

INFO:   width                 640.00

INFO:   height                360.00

INFO:   videocodecid          avc1

INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a

INFO:   avcprofile            77.00

INFO:   avclevel              30.00

INFO:   aacaot                2.00

INFO:   videoframerate        25.00

INFO:   audiosamplerate       24000.00

INFO:   audiochannels         2.00

INFO: trackinfo:

INFO:   length                36300000.00

INFO:   timescale             25000.00

INFO:   language              eng

INFO: sampledescription:

INFO:   sampletype            avc1

INFO:   length                34849792.00

INFO:   timescale             24000.00

INFO:   language              eng

INFO: sampledescription:

INFO:   sampletype            mp4a

151214.375 kB / 1452.03 sec (99.9%)

Download complete

RTMPDump v2.1d:

Code:

RTMPDump v2.1d

(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL

Connecting ...

Starting download at: 0.000 kB

Metadata:

  duration              1452.08

  moovPosition          28.00

  width                 640.00

  height                360.00

  videocodecid          avc1

  audiocodecid          mp4a

  avcprofile            77.00

  avclevel              30.00

  aacaot                2.00

  videoframerate        25.00

  audiosamplerate       24000.00

  audiochannels         2.00

trackinfo:

  length                36300000.00

  timescale             25000.00

  language              eng

sampledescription:

  sampletype            avc1

  length                34849792.00

  timescale             24000.00

  language              eng

sampledescription:

  sampletype            mp4a

151214.375 kB / 1452.03 sec (99.9%)

Download complete

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

Quote:

RTMPDump v2.3 r563 works perfectly.

@nullacht
Please, could you inform how to get this version?

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

@nobody

...compiled from the latest code available in SVN:

Code:

svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/rtmpdump/trunk

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

I just want to thank Placebo for grabbing something off ITV Player for me on Sunday night [despite it being late]
He used GetFLV - I might look into it as nothing else seems to work any more.
I just cannot get my head round this rtmpdump thing, even though I have downloaded all the bits and pieces for it, including something called Strawberry Perl, but I can't figure it out and just haven't got the time or concentration to learn at the moment

the only thing is, the videos I got in flv just wouldn't convert to avi or MP4 in Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, or Any Video Converter Professional - and the first one usually handles anything.

So I had to use ConvertXtoDVD to convert the flv's to DVD format
and then use Auto Gordian Knot to get avi from them so I could join the 2 parts - as you can imagine, this took many hours and I couldn't use my computer for other things while it was being done,
but the quality was ok [infact the quality on the original flv was excellent, I was quite surprised]
so thanks again, Placebo

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

@nonprofit, thanks for your report and kind words. was a pleasure to help (since, maybe, not too many own a purchased copy of GFLV.); just the FREE proxying thing (i've tried various types A, B, C, etc.) was killing me :p

Conversion of media files is discussed here:
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/con...files-f16.html

Conversion causes a degradation of quality (because none can be better than the original ;) ). To minimize quality loss, the video and audio tracks could be extracted losslessly with FLVExtract and then you could put them back together joined in a *.MP4-container or *.AVI-format. Replay Media Catcher can do conversions and extractions too .. but these itv FLV-files are quite something! :rolleyes: I've never done joining of video parts before so i cant help here. I would probably try to do everything in Nero 10.

you can join FLV-video parts with FLV Joiner (freeware):
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/flv...s-h-t5752.html
read also the tips at:
http://ferretsoft.active.ws/ (top left corner)

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonprofit (Post 26694)

I just want to thank Placebo for grabbing something off ITV Player for me on Sunday night [despite it being late]
I think he used GetFLV - I might look into it as nothing else seems to work any more.
I just cannot get my head round this rtmpdump thing, even though I have downloaded all the bits and pieces for it, including something called Strawberry Perl, but I can't figure it out and just haven't got the time or concentration to learn at the moment

the only thing is, the videos I got in flv just wouldn't convert to avi or MP4 in Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, or Any Video Converter Professional - and the first one usually handles anything.

So I had to use ConvertXtoDVD to convert the flv's to DVD format
and then use Auto Gordian Knot to get avi from them so I could join the 2 parts - as you can imagine, this took many hours and I couldn't use my computer for other things while it was being done,
but the quality was ok [infact the quality on the original flv was excellent, I was quite surprised]
so thanks again, Placebo

WM Capture 5 can capture video from screen into DVD-Video .ISO file. No need to convert for hours.

Re: www.channel4.com: Any way to capture video from the new 4OD service?

I only had to do that because I wanted an avi actually [to upload for someone who is abroad and can't see ITVPlayer]
although I can use the resulting DVD files now to burn a copy for myself

I've tried a screen capture thing and the frame size was confusing to me, and how it kept mirroring/reflecting what it was doing [sorry, I can't explain, but it's not the way for me]