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Old 07-19-2009, 10:21 PM
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Re: au.tv.yahoo.com: Suggestion for stream downloading from Yahoo TV Australia(rtmp .


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Originally Posted by oglasifwd View Post
I decided to try to download with Replay Media Catcher over dial-up at home.

After arround 90 minutes I was able to download the file named:

83930012_DD30828A.flv

It is complete video (13,44 minutes) but my size of the file is different. It is 27,4 Mb. I am confused because at your side it is 57 mb. I have just watched the file and everything is ok nothing is missing.

What could be the reasons for different sizes? Does that mean that video is streamed in different qualities? If that is the case how to get the better quality of 57 mb?
I suppose they offer videos with different bit-rate and/or video resolution depending on your connection.

How to get better quality videos? Usually the URLs used for streams with different bit-rates are different, so you can find the stream URL and download it with software that allows to add RTMP URLs such as Orbit Downloader, rtmpdump. The problem is that some stream URLs have timestamps, so they expire pretty quickly.

I would recommend to play with proxy settings of Orbit Downloader first and may be to try Grab Pro. It is much easier. Orbit is not the best RTMP downloader, but it can download many streams.
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