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Old 02-25-2014, 12:00 PM
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Re: Problems to download cbc.ca streams/replays


Hello.

I am too trying to download an event from cbc:

http://olympics.cbc.ca/videos/live/v...a-webcast.html

It is quite long, 2,5 hours and that causes problems.

I tried using ismdownloader. But since I am not in canada, I have to use vpn to access the site and the download is so slow that the connection breaks before ismdownloader finishes. So I am left with lots of fragments of audio and video.

I downloaded the missing fragments using DownThemAll batch downloader, so I have the whole file, but in small chunks.

I am stuck at this stage.

Ismdownloader can not be used to join the fragments, since it does not have any option allowing just merging of the chunks, but not downloading them first.

I tried using the AdobeHDS, but it says "Unknown packet type 0 encountered! Encrypted fragments can't be recovered.". I think it just does not work with silverlight fragments, since it says the same for fragments of a shorter video ismdownloader does just fine.

I tried to find ismdownloader source to find out how it does the merging, but no luck. I couldn't find any other program that works with silverlight streams from cbc. Tried jaksta, replay media catcher and a few others and nothing.


Any ideas?

I don't insist on cbc, but since I don't have a US cable subscription, nbc is not an option.

Thanks in advance.
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