Recording LOVEFiLM ( lovefilm.com = lovefilm.co.uk )

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hi, does anybody know what the technical specifics are for the UK site of lovefilm? Before i sign up for a subscription i want to know if it is possible to record their streams with RTMPdump or any other tool.
Has anyone tried yet to download their videos? How do i do?

[placebo]

Hi,

Lovefilm.com (a UK company, with headquarters in UK, and owned by Amazon), also accessed thru lovefilm.co.uk, has only 1 streaming quality: 800kbps, with the resolution (dimensions) depending on the movie. 800kbps is, in general, ugly quality; Amazon.com Instant Videos (AIV's) are streamed in 1328kbps 480p if it is non-HD; and HD is even higher. Moreover only a fraction of all Lovefilm DVD's are available as "Watch Online" versions. Then again maybe some 30% of the "Watch Online" videos are FREE to "Watch Now" for subscribers of a streaming flatrate, but most online videos (~70%) cost money on a pay-per-view basis. So before subscribing to their expensive service, make sure that the number of "Watch Now (FREE)"-videos of your interest is worth the trouble.

After all i cannot recommend their subscription service if you're only after pirating the few online videos they have (and all in horrid video quality). A much better place to do so is Amazon Instant Video (for U.S. customers ), for which you dont even need any subscription.

Anyway, for testing purposes you dont need to be subscribed. Everybody (with a U.K. ip address ) can watch some videos FOR FREE and without prior registration afaik, please go to:

http://www.lovefilm.com/browse/film/watch-online/free/

I cant get rtmpdump to work (i feel dump ) and GetFLV captures some RTMP-url but fails to download the stream. It doesnt look like a tough case so i am sure that GetFLV can download them with the next updated versions.

Maybe we could use the following as testpage url (video link!):

http://www.lovefilm.com/film/50-Greatest-Magic-Tricks/131987/

(what a crappy quality!!)

Good luck everybody!

[getflv]

Originally Posted by placebo

and GetFLV captures some RTMP-url but fails to download the stream. It doesnt look like a tough case so i am sure that GetFLV can download them with the next updated versions.

GetFLV 9.0.0.8 can download lovefilm.com videos now. Please check it and give us your feedback.

[placebo]

Thanks for updating and fixing.
Yes, i can confirm, GetFLV can capture various streams (incl. ads) and download them all.
,

Downloads are even resumable (within a certain time slot), similar to Amazon Instant Video downloads!
Resumability becomes an important aspect or factor when you lose the connection (change of IP address, crashing of internet/software/hardware, ..). This implies that in the end you dont need any UK IP address for the actual download. You can turn on your UK proxy server, then gather all captured url's at the bottom of GetFLV's main gui, then turn the proxy off (to establish a fast stable connection for the following step), and finally download the videos with GetFLV. Typical download speed for 1 video stream is ~110-130KB/s, so you should not download more than 6 videos at a time with a 6MBit/s DSL line.

hope this helps.

If someone has tested RTMPDUMP on Lovefilm, please report to complete our documentation of how to save Lovefilm "Watch Now" video streams.

Let's note that the Lovefilm video quality (~800kbps) is quite horrible as you can see from the screenshot. So whenever you're interested in saving a Lovefilm video stream you better check first with Amazon Instant Video, torrents or other sites before you ..etc..

[chap]

placebo

If someone has tested RTMPDUMP on Lovefilm, please report to complete our documentation of how to save Lovefilm "Watch Now" video streams.

C:\Documents and Settings\Администратор\Мои документы\rtmpdump-2.3-r568-openssl>
cmd
Microsoft Windows XP [Версия 5.1.2600]
(С) Корпорация Майкрософт, 1985-2001.

C:\Documents and Settings\Администратор\Мои документы\rtmpdump-2.3-r568-openssl>
"C:\Documents and Settings\Администратор\Мои документы\rtmpdump-2.3-r568-openssl
\rtmpdump.exe" -r "rtmpe://fms009.lo1.hwcdn.net/b4e5k8e8/_definst_" -a "b4e5k8e8
/_definst_" -f "WIN 10,2,159,1" -W "http://www.lovefilm.com/static/digital2/play
er/swf/OnDemandWebPlayer-1.4.1.swf" -p "http://www.lovefilm.com/film/50-Greatest
-Magic-Tricks/131987/" -y "mp4:fms/ALL/50GMT101/50_Greatest_Magic_Tricks_Feature
.mp4?id=123&token=LnmdbVZ55x2%2Bn%2F5Ib5%2F%2FB33mw81GytHsPhUSlAStk4BmkAmLIaRIu2
yy5le62s0oLwjeVM1F05TM%0AiNTe4vjodGaVwfo%2BFu7bTVXwtVcHepnc0CpBHnbSLLnptfZusbdLS
4VcC%2BqOA1nKRzTlXC66jbuB%0Av7Vjq7bs4xw%2Fey9dCznTHDKQIV6GOHISzoMLoj8rnYPXvzNs9G
t%2BhEyf0cYbr47C5uretEe1FG%2FM%0AGHnTuZ9qJaIWyV8M7ct2emhkXauJywyfhRzoYlS6RobCcdm
biJ1fJj%2FS0%2FElyHAIBxwhezZ5Le8p%0AYIf6wgAibFYsqkQvu%2BdK%2F1fjh8oy0shSO68SUrG0
JQ7vAENOsHnIBj8mOgCj7r9gplYp3HeZmAav%0AbDCrH73J7VacDGseSq4B%2FmFyVhqvNYkWMo%2BOg
BsUaRdBqsc%3D%0A&hwttl=1304786664&smUrl=http%3A%2F%2F72.172.68.100%2Fsession_man
agement&hwsign=a8e3815a9ef6101c0e572af24b44fb8e&doppl=efdd1c90a21ffd68&dopsig=86
ec274321dbd831999a78a813c0ef56" -o 50_Greatest_Magic_Tricks_Feature.flv
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              6184.75
INFO:   moovPosition          28.00
INFO:   width                 640.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              32.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       24000.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                154617000.00
INFO:   timescale             25000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                148433920.00
INFO:   timescale             24000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
12428.810 kB / 127.36 sec (2.0%)

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hello all,
this is a great nice helpful forum!
now i can see how i must use the RTMPdump command, thanks you very much

placebo, GetFLV is expensive. i will buy it later, it is very good for Amazon!

chap, very useful the command logs. i have tried successful two!

[placebo]

chap, can you capture the testvideo with CooJah, and download with Blader?
if rtmpdump can download it, then Blader should be able to do it too!

[chap]

Originally Posted by placebo

chap, can you capture the testvideo with Coojah, and download with Blader?
if rtmpdump can download it, then Blader should be able to do it too!

No, I can hardly catch any RTMPE links with it

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, , ,

its quite difficult to get the videos streaming
but once the stream has started, RTMPexplorer downloads it too!

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in case you want to cancel the account (or the trial subscription)..