Problem SAVING Akamai streams

[thefallenghost]

Hi,
I am experiencing problems when trying to save Akamai rtmp streams. It seems to download only a small fraction of the stream. Here is an example:

rtmpdump --verbose -r "rtmp://cp108341.live.edgefcs.net/live/sf2_1_800@43048" --swfsize 927444 --swfhash 6c1be1765187eae0bc9af07d858fae59a0effd3c5b803d08db261ced2c5512bb -o "M:\Streams-TV\RTMPdump videos\test.mp4"

I have verified the swfsize and swfhash from many sources on the internet. They are all the same for akamai streams as far as I have seen.

Here is the normal output:

Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname            Custom
INFO:   creationdate          Tue Jul 16 05:02:10 2013
INFO:   videodevice           Osprey-450e Video Device 1A
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   videodatarate         800.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency2.00
INFO:   audiodevice           Osprey-450e Audio Device 1A
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume      75.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
0.618 kB / 0.00 sec
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname            Custom
INFO:   creationdate          Tue Jul 16 05:02:10 2013
INFO:   videodevice           Osprey-450e Video Device 1A
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   videodatarate         800.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency2.00
INFO:   audiodevice           Osprey-450e Audio Device 1A
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume      75.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname            Custom
INFO:   creationdate          Tue Jul 16 05:02:10 2013
INFO:   videodevice           Osprey-450e Video Device 1A
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   videodatarate         800.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency2.00
INFO:   audiodevice           Osprey-450e Audio Device 1A
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume      75.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
151.175 kB / 2.76 sec
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname            Custom
INFO:   creationdate          Tue Jul 16 05:02:10 2013
INFO:   videodevice           Osprey-450e Video Device 1A
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   videodatarate         800.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency2.00
INFO:   audiodevice           Osprey-450e Audio Device 1A
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume      75.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
573.889 kB / 2.83 sec
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname            Custom
INFO:   creationdate          Tue Jul 16 05:02:10 2013
INFO:   videodevice           Osprey-450e Video Device 1A
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   videodatarate         800.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency2.00
INFO:   audiodevice           Osprey-450e Audio Device 1A
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume      75.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
1000.526 kB / 2.89 sec
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname            Custom
INFO:   creationdate          Tue Jul 16 05:02:10 2013
INFO:   videodevice           Osprey-450e Video Device 1A
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   videodatarate         800.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency2.00
INFO:   audiodevice           Osprey-450e Audio Device 1A
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume      75.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
Caught signal: 2, cleaning up, just a second...
1281.255 kB / 0.91 sec
Download may be incomplete (downloaded about 0.00%), try resuming

Here I stopped rtmpdump manually, but it does keep going on its own normally.

However, I can watch these streams without a hitch if I pipe the output to VLC... I really don't understand why

Thank you for any help!

[placebo]

You forgot option --live

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp108341.live.edgefcs.net/live/sf2_1_800@43048" --swfsize 927444 --swfhash 6c1be1765187eae0bc9af07d858fae59a0effd3c5b803d08db261ced2c5512bb --live -o test.flv

[thefallenghost]

Wow that's it LOL. Sorry I didn't see that x.x Thanks a lot!