I would like to see your python script that you used to capture this stream. I haven't used python so it would help me. Could you post it or an example of how you do it?
There is another long thread on capturing the Olympics which uses ffmpeg. This works pretty well but the problem is that you have to capture the whole stream from the beginning and the connection to their server will usually disconnect before the whole thing can be captured. I like your method because it looks like you'd be able to start at any point in the stream.
I was able to see the pattern and was able to download some 5-second segments. Right now, if I had to do it, I would try to use a batch file and just save all the files. It sounds like your way is better.
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Originally Posted by deadmund
I have figured out a solution. I used video download helper (the firefox add-on) to get the URL. Turns out the video was in hundreds of 5 second segments. I then looked at 2 or 3 of the URLs to determine the pattern (which was quite simple) and wrote a python script that called VLC to download each segment. Because they're mpeg video files I could cat them all together with no video processing. This was all on linux. Post here if you have questions about how I did this so you can do it too!
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