C-SPAN Captures

C-SPAN Captures

 

Use the rtmpdump command line and file sequences outlined below to capture Senator Rand Paul's fourteen-hour filibuster of 2013-03-06 on C-SPAN2:


This command line will capture the beginning of United States Senator Rand Paul's fourteen-hour filibuster, (which starts at minute 48 of hour 11 [ file 20130306105954002_hd.mp4 ] of 2013-03-06 C-Span Senate proceedings and continues with hours 12 through 24 [ files 20130306115954002_hd.mp4 through 20130306235954002_hd.mp4 ]).

In a followup reply to this post, I will provide a quick Wireshark tutorial showing how to get the rtmp URL used on the rtmpdump command line.

Re: C-SPAN Captures

 

There is an easier way to get Rand Pauls' filibuster. The Senate makes all their videos available for download as MP4.

Re: C-SPAN Captures

 

The Senate claims to make all their videos available for download as MP4. Show me.

I make the Rand Paul filibuster available for download as MP4: https://archive.org/details/paul20130306

As to rtmpdump and Wireshark, do you think their use is limited to C-Span? Do you think folk who put "capture" in their search engine might be looking for that primarily, and C-Span secondarily, if at all?
In the latter case, they can find in my Internet Archive item a fourteen-hour filibuster in the time it takes their browser to load the page. Whereas in the case of your Senate "download as MP4" video archive, they will find nothing.