Rai.tv - how capture streaming and download video on demand

[croufrou]

Hi, sorry for my bad english,
I would like to capture streaming channels
and video on domand on www.rai.tv

I tried using Replay Media Catcher (4.3.2) to download a video on domand, with duration: 5 minutes
Replay Media Catcher starts to download a file called Rai Replay.mkv with duration 59 minutes .... ???
cancell the download, and opening the files created ... is only audio, but not of that video .... ???

these are the details of Replay Media Catcher


Registrazione di http://smoothreplay.rai.it/ReplayTV/...e.ism/Manifest
File scaricato: Rai Replay.mkv
Iniziato il: 04/02/2012 17.07
Queued for downloading
Inizio il download di Smooth Streaming ...
Rilevazione nome file ...
Applying Browser Title Naming Rule
Rilevazione nome file completata
Download
Parsing Manifest
Selecting lowest video quality
Selecting lowest audio quality
Audio bitrate = 64000
Video bitrate = 200000
Downloading (SMOOTH) - 82 KB (00:00:00 / 00:59:58)
Downloading (SMOOTH) - 98 KB (00:00:01 / 00:59:58)
Downloading (SMOOTH) - 166 KB (00:00:02 / 00:59:58)
Downloading (SMOOTH) - 182 KB (00:00:03 / 00:59:58)
Downloading (SMOOTH) - 235 KB (00:00:04 / 00:59:58)
Downloading (SMOOTH) - 251 KB (00:00:05 / 00:59:58)
ecc ecc



help?

[Bahman]

I would want to say, using ISM Downloader!! It's made for downloading Microsoft Smooth Streams!! but unfortunately It doesn't support AVC1 codec!! Your vid use that codec:

 <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
- <SmoothStreamingMedia MajorVersion="2" MinorVersion="0" Duration="35980000000" TimeScale="10000000">
- <StreamIndex Type="video" SubType="" Chunks="1800" TimeScale="10000000" Url="QualityLevels({bitrate})/Fragments(video={start time})">
  <QualityLevel Index="0" Bitrate="1500000" CodecPrivateData="00000001674d401f965605a1afcf80a040000003004000000cb888002dc60000b7187f18e0ed0a15700000000168eacd48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="720" MaxHeight="404" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="1" Bitrate="1000000" CodecPrivateData="00000001674d401f965605a1afcf80a040000003004000000cb888007a100007a107f18e0ed0a1570000000168eacd48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="720" MaxHeight="404" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="2" Bitrate="900000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb888006ddc000dbb1fc6383b42855c0000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="3" Bitrate="630000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb888004ce400099c1fc6383b42855c0000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="4" Bitrate="450000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb88800dbb0006dd1fc6383b42855c00000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="5" Bitrate="200000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb888018680030d1fc6383b42855c0000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <c t="2951018660000" />

The only things that I have seen before in this forum, RMC 4.0.7 seems to work!!

[croufrou]

with RMC 4.0.7 work ???
and with RMC 4.3.2 not work ????

strange

I do not find the 4.0.7

[Bahman]

In the past, I have read (someone said) RMC 4.0.7 could download and downloaded file is OK!! Try 4.0.8!! Not so different!!

and don't be surprised!! for example, StreamTransport 2041 works too much better than 2071!!

But Look, because the stream uses specific video codec, I don't think RMC 4.0.7 can does the trick too!! Sorry!!
Try to contact "Applian" for this issue!!

Edit:
There is a way!!
Try to find on the internet (if you prefer to don't buy ), "Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro (with codecs)" (view This, I mean 4th column)!! You can input AVC1 video and then convert it to anything that you want, easy!! I'm sure you can!!
"Input video" is, "chunks"!! Download them with this pattern:

http://smoothreplay.rai.it/ReplayTV/replaytv_raidue-isml/2012-01-25-18-57-49-783/Segment063/replaytv_raidue.ism/QualityLevels(1500000)/Fragments(video=2951018660000)

[croufrou]

I have found Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro.
But what i've to do

i would capture this video: http://www.rai.tv/dl/replaytv/replay...012-02-04&vc=2

how?

[Bahman]

Open the Manifest url:
http://smoothreplay.rai.it/ReplayTV/...e.ism/Manifest

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
- <SmoothStreamingMedia MajorVersion="2" MinorVersion="0" Duration="35980000000" TimeScale="10000000">
- <StreamIndex Type="video" SubType="" Chunks="1800" TimeScale="10000000" Url="QualityLevels({bitrate})/Fragments(video={start time})">
  <QualityLevel Index="0" Bitrate="1500000" CodecPrivateData="00000001674d401f965605a1afcf80a040000003004000000cb888002dc60000b7187f18e0ed0a15700000000168eacd48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="720" MaxHeight="404" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="1" Bitrate="1000000" CodecPrivateData="00000001674d401f965605a1afcf80a040000003004000000cb888007a100007a107f18e0ed0a1570000000168eacd48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="720" MaxHeight="404" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="2" Bitrate="900000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb888006ddc000dbb1fc6383b42855c0000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="3" Bitrate="630000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb888004ce400099c1fc6383b42855c0000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="4" Bitrate="450000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb88800dbb0006dd1fc6383b42855c00000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <QualityLevel Index="5" Bitrate="200000" CodecPrivateData="000000016742801e965605017fcb80a040000003004000000cb888018680030d1fc6383b42855c0000000168ca8d48" FourCC="AVC1" MaxWidth="640" MaxHeight="360" /> 
  <c t="2951018660000" /> 
  <c t="2951038660000" /> 
  <c t="2951058660000" /> 
  <c t="2951078660000" /> 
  <c t="2951098660000" /> 
  <c t="2951118660000" /> 
  <c t="2951138660000" /> 
  <c t="2951158660000" /> 
  <c t="2951178660000" /> 
  <c t="2951198660000" /> 
  <c t="2951218660000" /> 
  <c t="2951238660000" /> 
  <c t="2951258660000" /> 
.
.
.
StreamIndex Type="audio" Name="audio" SubType="" Chunks="1795" TimeScale="10000000" Url="QualityLevels({bitrate},{CustomAttributes})/Fragments(audio={start time})">
- <QualityLevel Index="0" Bitrate="64000" CodecPrivateData="" FourCC="AACL" AudioTag="255" Channels="2" SamplingRate="48000" BitsPerSample="16" PacketSize="1">
- <CustomAttributes>
  <Attribute Name="systemLanguage" Value="ita" /> 
  </CustomAttributes>
  </QualityLevel>
  <c t="2951034873333" /> 
  <c t="2951054926666" /> 
  <c t="2951074980000" /> 
  <c t="2951095033333" /> 
  <c t="2951115086666" /> 
  <c t="2951135140000" /> 
  <c t="2951155193333" /> 
.
..
.

Download each chunks by this pattern url for videos:
1st chunk:

http://smoothreplay.rai.it/ReplayTV/replaytv_raidue-isml/2012-01-25-18-57-49-783/Segment063/replaytv_raidue.ism/QualityLevels(1500000)/Fragments(video=2951018660000)

2nd chunk:

http://smoothreplay.rai.it/ReplayTV/replaytv_raidue-isml/2012-01-25-18-57-49-783/Segment063/replaytv_raidue.ism/QualityLevels(1500000)/Fragments(video=2951038660000)

for audios:

http://smoothreplay.rai.it/ReplayTV/replaytv_raidue-isml/2012-01-25-18-57-49-783/Segment063/replaytv_raidue.ism/QualityLevels(64000)/Fragments(audio=2951034873333)

and so on for other chunks!!

Then open them with Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro and convert them!! after convert, merge them!! but first ensure that you have pro version with codecs!!

I know it's annoying to download 1800 video chunks and 1795 audio chunks, but you don't have any other way!!

[croufrou]

thanks!!
it's a hard work....hope to find a solutione....soon or later

[niente]

Hello, for the smooth streaming in AVC1, you can try this modded version: http://md5decrypt.altervista.org/ismdownloaderavc1.htm

It works pretty well!!!

[chap]

Originally Posted by niente

Hello, for the smooth streaming in AVC1, you can try this modded version: http://md5decrypt.altervista.org/ismdownloaderavc1.htm

It works pretty well!!!

thanks

[ricsip]

Originally Posted by niente

Hello, for the smooth streaming in AVC1, you can try this modded version: http://md5decrypt.altervista.org/ismdownloaderavc1.htm

It works pretty well!!!

Just for everyone's benefit, there are a couple of undocumented commandline switches for this utility (be able to use proxy, specify cookie etc.) but the most important (at least for me) is the ability to specify which quality level I want to download (if there are multiple ones in the manifest, which is actually like most of the case), so not to waste bandwidth and disk storage with 1080p quality videos, if its possible to download the 720p version instead.

In the commandline you can specifiy "-quality lowest" (without quotes of course) and it will download the lowest quality available.

Also you can specify "-quality all", and it will download all possible fragments (didnt test this, but the program can be reverse engineered using .NET reflector).

Spread the word, as there is no known documentation or at least a list of commandline switches for this utlity.
Happy downloading!