I can't get
GetFLV to work for me. It must be operator error. I have tried different versions, portable versions, trial versions. It supposedly finds the URL sometimes and I choose download and then go to the FLV Downloader part and it never does anything. The green arrow icon changes to the red X and it never shows any progress. Sometimes it shows different URLs for the same video. It never seems to get the ad URLs, which is fine of course, but odd if it supposed to show downloadable videos. Regardless I guess some more trial and error with it is needed. Any ideas as to why GetFLV doesn't seem to work for me?
@hyc
I see now that it needs the http. But it never finds the URL for the rtmpe file. I have both channel4.pm and 4od.pm and brightcove.pm in the plugins folder. Looking at channel4.pm and 4od.pm files themselves they seem to need updating as I think the url scheme has changed.
I get
Code:
Using method 'generic' for http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sas-the-real-story/4od
Found 4odplayer-4.49.5.swf
Guessed http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sas-the-real-story/4odplayer-4.49.5.swf trying...
Exists on http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sas-the-real-story/4odplayer-4.49.5.swf: 400
Error: No URLs found at FlashVideo/Generic.pm line 129.
So it does not even call the plugin which is why I think it might needed updated. What is odd is that it gives the list of plugins then when it says "Trying to open plugin ..." it does not show them all and repeats some. So it does not I have no programming knowledge so I guess they will stay like they are until some comes along and changes them.
As you said the point of get_flash_videos is to get the URL and format it for RTMPDUMP. Even if it was working to catch the URL I don't forsee it formatting the command passed to RTMPDUMP any better than RTMPSRV does. And as I mentioned before the command generated by RTMPSRV doesn't work for me. And I can't seem to parse out any channel 4 rtmpe URL correctly, even though I seem to be doing ok with other sites.
RTMPSRV has a -C Z: in its command. I am not sure what null data it is wanting to put in. Looking things over it seems there
might be a secure token, but when I use the -T parameter with what I think is the token I got from looking at URLSnooper it still does not work. I looked at both the get_flash_videos channel4.pm and a version of get_iplayer that has channel4 functionality and they both seem to speak to there being a secure token. Perhaps this is what I am missing. As I mentioned I think the channel4 get_flash_videos plugins need updating and as the get_iplayer channel4 portion looks similar it to fails to work also.
I have got
rtmpdump to work with other sites and I would like to get it to work with channel4 also. I just can't figure out what is so unique that I can't get the videos using RTMPDUMP.