Adobe Flash HTTP Dynamic Streaming

[Budgie]

One of the on-line TV service providers in UK, 4oD, has started to use http dynamic streaming and in consequence I can no longer even watch the programmes using Firefox on openSUSE 12.1 Linux.

Adobe state that their flash software should work but mine does not so I can neither stream or watch this channel anymore.

Surely some other linux users have noticed this problem. Can anybody help please?

Budgie

[svnpenn]

Originally Posted by Adobe employee, Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, 2010-8-17

The file format spec provided in one of the replies is the manifest file format specification - F4M. The actual f4f file format specification is only available under NDA. We have a white paper that we are working on @ Adobe, and once that is out, I can update you. Stay tuned.

stream-recorder.com/forum/showpost.php?p=43546&postcount=38

[Budgie]

Originally Posted by svnpenn

stream-recorder.com/forum/showpost.php?p=43546&postcount=38

Thanks svnpenn but look at the date of the post to which you refer. Meanwhile adobe and their clients have introduced this system and yet in 2012 there is still no open source solution. Do you accept this situation?

Where are the coders and the reverse engineers if it comes to that? I am not thinking just of downloading, I can't even watch some TV shows on line now.

I do not believe there is no solution out there, just that I cannot find it.

Please could somebody who knows share their knowledge.

Budgie

[svnpenn]

The RTMP "specification" was released in June 2009 by Adobe.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

That specification, however, omits crucial details of the protocol's implementation. It would be impossible to write a program incorporating the RTMP protocol based on the released specification alone; many essential details are omitted, and only limited additional facts can be determined by studying other implementations that use the protocol (such as librtmp), and by carrying out test TCP/IP packet captures.

So they opted for "security through obscurity"

lkcl.net/rtmp
wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

Originally Posted by Budgie

look at the date of the post to which you refer.

Here is a more recent one

Originally Posted by Adobe employee, Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, 2011-6-25

The official F4F specification is only available , as of now, through an NDA. The following thread gives all the details : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/685558

[zakflash]

Originally Posted by Budgie

One of the on-line TV service providers in UK, 4oD, has started to use http dynamic streaming and in consequence I can no longer even watch the programmes using Firefox on openSUSE 12.1 Linux.

Adobe state that their flash software should work but mine does not so I can neither stream or watch this channel anymore.

Surely some other linux users have noticed this problem. Can anybody help please?

Budgie

They're only using it for some videos. njtaylor has done quite a lot of investigation into this, see this issue at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-v...=379&start=100. The main problem now is that not only does this use dynamic streaming, it's also encrypted. Need to find the key.