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Originally Posted by blimey
The event programs use authenticated time-limited urls for the f4m manifest. The syntax would be much like the example given by ehurdler in post #10 of this thread... only adjusted to reflect your authentication particulars.
You probably don't want to waste time, or an authenticated f4m manifest url access, doing a debug command. You know the quality levels already, have separate command windows open and do one each for the audio and video before the manifest url expires. Or you could do them consecutively, but you'd have to get a new manifest url before you do the second one as the first will likely have expired.
What was the problem you had using the ios url (m3u8) w/ffmpeg (as provided by chap) for an event program? I had no trouble, although I did the audio and video in separate consecutive ffmpeg sequences, rather than as two inputs to ffmpeg as a single command as chap has it. The ios urls for the manifest need no authentication even for event programs. |
Right - I normally don't take the time to use the debug switch. I was only using it looking for possible explanations why I couldn't get a couple event replays to work last night with KSV's Adobe HDS downloader.
After giving up on that approach, I tried chap's ffmpeg method of getting the m3u8 streams and had amazing success grabbing a couple 4-hour events. Perhaps it was due to being able to bypass whatever issue I was having with the tokens I was getting (I never waited more than a minute between getting the authentication token and trying to run with it - it just wasn't working).
I'm thinking the problems I've had with these downloads could be - and probably are - tied to having spotty internet service both at home and at work over the last week or so (using Comcast in greater Seattle area). I'm not sure how tolerant these methods are of connection interruptions, but last night and this morning seem to have been far better in that regard, and correspondingly any download attempts I've made have been successful.
For example, one I had great difficulty with a couple days ago - the Women's Moguls Qualification 1 - now seems to be coming down without a hitch using KSV's Adobe HDS downloader. Since the connection is throttled down a bit, I imagine I'll need to get a new authentication token for the audio, but so far so good.
Thanks!