Olympic official streaming videos, i'm going crazy, i can't download it! help

[pankyk86]

I'm trying and trying to download the streaming replay of official olympic channel on youtube but nothing to do. i've tried with a lot of programs, i don't know what i have to do for download for example a video like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78btYWiv_xM
i hope you can help me
ps: i'ma windows 7 user

[pankyk86]

no solution? anyone?

[nwtim]

What have you tried so far?

Have you tried using ffmpeg using the following command line?

ffmpeg.exe -i URL -c copy out.ts

Using Firefox's web console (ctrl-shift-k), it seems to pick up the URL of:

"http://www.youtube.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/id/efc6ed6168afff13/itag/96/source/yt_live_broadcast/ratebypass/yes/cmbypass/yes/playlist_type/CLEAN/maudio/1/pmbypass/yes/upn/4seIveUx-l8/sver/3/ip/24.18.126.11/ipbits/8/expire/1345624564/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,ratebypass,cmbypas s,playlist_type,maudio,pmbypass/signature/49A1DD88EFE092D59C5ABF52B187D4CEA6512E8B.428EB8078 7A258204F31E050620CCC3206B03A78/key/ck1/file/index.m3u8"

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I'm trying to get a bunch of video from the NBCOlympics site of raw streams not posted on their YouTube channel, and have had very little success trying to get the proper URLs.

So, I've made most of my recordings from this content (preferring 1080p or 720p) using Screen Recorder Suite. It works very well and easily, but the result is a lossy video.

You can actually use Video Downloadhelper to save some of the .mp2t files as they click by (a new file appears about every 3 or 4 seconds) and they'll play just fine in VLC (I rename them to .flv because they're actually flash video segments). The video quality is the best I've ever seen in my life, but the challenge is that a mere 10 minutes of video is saved in 130 files! and I have no idea how difficult it would be to merge all those files without issues.

I downloaded Video Streaming Recorder (another apowersoft product) and ran it on a trial basis. It grabs every single file that streams by without breaking a sweat and names them in sequential order. I "grabbed" a 4 hour long video of Rhythmic Gymnastics while I slept last night and woke up to over 3000 files. Video Streaming Recorder has a really nice set of conversion tools and it can even merge the files, but the trial mode limitation seems to disable any ability to properly join these files.

I've tried several pay-for tools, and virtually none of them even show these mp2t/flv files, but Video Streaming Recorder does.

If you find anything else that works I'd love to know, because the lossless video is to die for.

[chap]

Originally Posted by nwtim

If you find anything else that works I'd love to know, because the lossless video is to die for.

example a video

[nwtim]

Originally Posted by chap

example a video

I'd love to. Being new here, I haven't yet seen how most people share their videos. Got any tips on that? Meanwhile, PM me and I'll email you a short 2 or 3 second clip.

[nwtim]

Originally Posted by nwtim

What have you tried so far?

Have you tried using ffmpeg using the following command line?

ffmpeg.exe -i URL -c copy out.ts

Using Firefox's web console (ctrl-shift-k), it seems to pick up the URL of:

"http://www.youtube.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/id/efc6ed6168afff13/itag/96/source/yt_live_broadcast/ratebypass/yes/cmbypass/yes/playlist_type/CLEAN/maudio/1/pmbypass/yes/upn/4seIveUx-l8/sver/3/ip/24.18.126.11/ipbits/8/expire/1345624564/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,ratebypass,cmbypas s,playlist_type,maudio,pmbypass/signature/49A1DD88EFE092D59C5ABF52B187D4CEA6512E8B.428EB8078 7A258204F31E050620CCC3206B03A78/key/ck1/file/index.m3u8"
...

What I did was create a Downloads folder on a storage drive and added ffmpeg.exe to it and then created a getvideo.bat file with the above command line in it. The URL is something that will be user specific, so you need to find out what the long one is for the PC your working from. I used the web console in Firefox, but there are many tools that can do the job. Filter for the m3u8 filetype in the URL and paste it into the batch file with quotes around it. Once you've saved the batch file, open a command prompt window and manually navigate to the folder ffmpeg.exe and the batch file are in and type in the name of the batch file.

I just tried it with the video you mentioned, and it's downloading right now. It's not a fast download, but it's up to 137MB after just about 5 minutes. It's giving me a H264 AVC MPEG-4 file at 1920x1080 and 50 fps that looks amazing.

Good luck!

[pankyk86]

Originally Posted by nwtim

What I did was create a Downloads folder on a storage drive and added ffmpeg.exe to it and then created a getvideo.bat file with the above command line in it. The URL is something that will be user specific, so you need to find out what the long one is for the PC your working from. I used the web console in Firefox, but there are many tools that can do the job. Filter for the m3u8 filetype in the URL and paste it into the batch file with quotes around it. Once you've saved the batch file, open a command prompt window and manually navigate to the folder ffmpeg.exe and the batch file are in and type in the name of the batch file.

I just tried it with the video you mentioned, and it's downloading right now. It's not a fast download, but it's up to 137MB after just about 5 minutes. It's giving me a H264 AVC MPEG-4 file at 1920x1080 and 50 fps that looks amazing.

Good luck!

can you explain step by step (for dummies ) , what is ffmpeg? how to download? i'm sorry but i'm not a pc genius

[nwtim]

Originally Posted by pankyk86

can you explain step by step (for dummies ) , what is ffmpeg? how to download? i'm sorry but i'm not a pc genius

You can learn more about ffmpeg at http://ffmpeg.org/index.html. I downloaded mine (Windows) from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/. ffmpeg.exe and ffplay.exe can be placed in a folder of your choice and run from there with a command line - either from a command prompt in a window or from a batch file (which is how I use it).

Does that help?