CSPAN recently

[peterpiper]

Anyone able to d/l programs from c-span lately? I last tried and was successful in July I think. Tried again today and the old way didn't work and I can't see why not. I am using Linux. Rtmpsrv and rtmpdump didn't work. Even started wireshark but I suck at that and couldn't get anything useful.

Tried for example http://c-spanvideo.org/program/AdamGr and http://c-spanvideo.org/program/ReaganDin

Cmd for the former:
rtmpdump -r "rtmp://video.c-spanarchives.org:1935/fastplay/../mp4:downloads/315/315720-4/315720-4-MP4-STD/315720-4-MP4-STD_01.mp4" -W http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf -v -o green.mp4

Result:
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header

[peterpan]

Hi,

I was able to record the stream using RTMPDUMPHELPER. You launch the helper 1st, then play the stream and it'll get record it

And this below is the codeI found in the command file, BUT if you play this (as a .bat file) or a command at the rtmpdump prompt!!! It creates a recorded empty file, for a few seconds, then shuts down!

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org:80/bwcheck" -a "bwcheck" -f "WIN 11,9,900,117" -W "http://static.c-spanvideo.org/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.2013.10.18.swf" -p "http://c-spanvideo.org/program/AdamGr" -y "mp4:downloads/315/315720-4/315720-4-MP4-STD/315720-4-MP4-STD_01.mp4" -o "2013-10-27_05-10-07_315720-4-MP4-STD_01.flv"

P.S. I'm using Win8.

Originally Posted by peterpiper

Anyone able to d/l programs from c-span lately? I last tried and was successful in July I think. Tried again today and the old way didn't work and I can't see why not. I am using Linux. Rtmpsrv and rtmpdump didn't work. Even started wireshark but I suck at that and couldn't get anything useful.

Tried for example http://c-spanvideo.org/program/AdamGr and http://c-spanvideo.org/program/ReaganDin

Cmd for the former:
rtmpdump -r "rtmp://video.c-spanarchives.org:1935/fastplay/../mp4:downloads/315/315720-4/315720-4-MP4-STD/315720-4-MP4-STD_01.mp4" -W http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf -v -o green.mp4

Result:
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header

[peterpiper]

Thanks peterpan! That is one of the options I tried (it comes from rtmpsrv) and I got the same error in my first post.

So when you say "I was able to record the stream using RTMPDUMPHELPER" you actually got the video to record?

[peterpan]

Yes: http://ge.tt/7784jRw/v/0?c OR http://ge.tt/8lNNjRw/v/0?c

No I get this when I launch the site, but b4 I press PLAY:




Then I get this after I press PLAY:




Then I get this while playing and until I end the recording, as you can see:





Now despite these error msgs, as you can see, it still records just fine!

Cheers!

[hasomaso]

you need secureToken for that
PM me

[peterpiper]

Thanks for the token and advice hasomaso!