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Anyone's ESPN stream download ending at 50%?

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Anyone's ESPN stream download ending at 50%?

I've been using the instructions from this thread http://stream-recorder.com/forum/any...ms-t19889.html for over a year, but recently ESPN changed the UI of their website and at the same time I think changed the player.

The process still works, URL Snooper finds the m3u8 link.The command line i'm using is

Code:

livestreamer "hlsvariant://" 504p -o copy.ts

Which I paste into the CMD and it seems to download normally.

Where my issue comes up is that the CMD says the stream has ended and everything is fine, the duration and size is consistent with previous downloads but when I play the video it only contains video to halfway. This has been consistent for over four videos now, I've seen others post clips from the second half so they aren't having issues by I am not sure why this appears to be fine but isn't actually downloading fully.

The video I'm trying to download is;

Code:

http://www.espn.com/watch/player?id=3054130

The m4u8 link is;

Code:

http://content.uplynk.com/event/ext/d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a/a19882221.m3u8?rn=767820038&linearv=4&ad.csid=watchespn:web:e3ads&ad.ulbd=1&eid=a19882221&ct=e&ad.kv=_fw_ae,975cd70e2de25291acc0efc98a48935e,_fw_euid,5856C085-3696-41AA-9A37-8983206F4E12&exp=1495257704&ptid=ESPN3_Events_VDMS&tc=1&oid=d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a&ad=e3ads&ad.caid=a19882221&euid=ESPN3_VDMS&sig=b12a9dbff7327c86b4d44dc4253cfe18ffc56d159c7a207a6711400a93a8f336

Additional Information:

I left URL snooper on while running the video, and there's two types of m3u8 links coming up. Livestreamer give me an error when I used the http

GET m3u8

Code:

http://content.uplynk.com/event/ext/d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a/a19882221.m3u8?rn=767820038&linearv=4&ad.csid=watchespn:web:e3ads&ad.ulbd=1&eid=a19882221&ct=e&ad.kv=_fw_ae,975cd70e2de25291acc0efc98a48935e,_fw_euid,5856C085-3696-41AA-9A37-8983206F4E12&exp=1495257704&ptid=ESPN3_Events_VDMS&tc=1&oid=d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a&ad=e3ads&ad.caid=a19882221&euid=ESPN3_VDMS&sig=b12a9dbff7327c86b4d44dc4253cfe18ffc56d159c7a207a6711400a93a8f336

http m3u8

Code:

http://content.uplynk.com/event/ext/d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a/a19882221.m3u8?rn=767820038&amp;linearv=4&amp;ad.csid=watchespn:web:e3ads&amp;ad.ulbd=1&amp;eid=a19882221&amp;ct=e&amp;ad.kv=_fw_ae,975cd70e2de25291acc0efc98a48935e,_fw_euid,5856C085-3696-41AA-9A37-8983206F4E12&amp;exp=1495257704&amp;ptid=ESPN3_Events_VDMS&amp;tc=1&amp;oid=d09b16c953aa40c98dd8c513526aca5a&amp;ad=e3ads&amp;ad.caid=a19882221&amp;euid=ESPN3_VDMS&amp;sig=b12a9dbff7327c86b4d44dc4253cfe18ffc56d159c7a207a6711400a93a8f336

Re: Anyone's ESPN stream download ending at 50%?

Quote:

Where my issue comes up is that the CMD says the stream has ended and everything is fine, the duration and size is consistent with previous downloads but when I play the video it only contains video to halfway. This has been consistent for over four videos now, I've seen others post clips from the second half so they aren't having issues by I am not sure why this appears to be fine but isn't actually downloading fully.

I would try remuxing from the TS to an MP4 with FFmpeg:

Code:

ffmpeg -i COPY.TS -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc COPY.MP4

Re: Anyone's ESPN stream download ending at 50%?

For this command where do you paste the m3u8 link?

Code:

ffmpeg -i COPY.TS -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc COPY.MP4

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Re: Anyone's ESPN stream download ending at 50%?

Quote:

Originally Posted by NCAAbigfan (Post 91781)

For this command where do you paste the m3u8 link?

Code:

ffmpeg -i COPY.TS -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc COPY.MP4

after the "-i"

Re: Anyone's ESPN stream download ending at 50%?

Quote:

Originally Posted by slim10 (Post 91780)

I would try remuxing from the TS to an MP4 with FFmpeg:

Code:

ffmpeg -i COPY.TS -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc COPY.MP4

Without having used ffmpeg before I thought this was another way to download streams which obviously didn't work, but after learning how to use the command this has worked perfectly. Thanks heaps.