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Originally Posted by pankyk86
thanks, it remains difficult to understand for me because i don't have a "great" experience in this :/ but for example in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78btYWiv_xM where is the ..api/manifest....? how can i take this link? i'm sorry, i'm a disaster!! maybe the best solution is someone who download video for me and then upload on a file sharging site  |
The URL for such programs often have an expiration date and they can be machine specific. I've found that to be the case with all the NBCOlympics videos that are served in 5-second chunks.
You won't be able to download/transcode (that's pretty much what ffmpeg is doing) the video without the proper URL, but there are numerous tools to do this. It's not completely trivial, as sometimes you have refresh the page and/or restart the video in order for the URL to be detected, but for these Olympics videos you're looking for the URL that ends in .m3u8. There are many ways to grab that URL. I happen to use the web console in Firefox (ctrl-shift-k) and enter m3u8 in the filter box in the upper right corner. The URL generally pops up right at the beginning of the video and that's all you need.
Don't give up - you're about to get this and then you'll be helping others.