How to download Myspace videos | New Updated Method

[sam4037]

I am trying to download videos from Myspace. It looks like they changed the way the videos are streamed and now none of the already given methods seems to work.

Someone on Yahoo Answers asked a question about downloading Myspace videos and sent me this video link:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=104065667

When I run URL Snooper to get the streaming URL the most promising one is the one from the GET FlashMedia Protocol:

http://lads.myspace.com/videos/c.swf?SkinID=5000&t=1&mute=0&ptype=100&el=http%3a%2f%2fvids.myspace.com%2findex.cfm%3ffuseaction%3dvids.individual%26videoid%3d104065667&on=2&sr=1&ap=true&primaryColor=&secondaryColor=&m=104065667&mt=video&uid=-1&cc=de-CH&hw=1&searchID=0&dc=&mc=400&g=M&ar=0&pg=21003206&dnau=false&dnap=0&dnaBitrate=384000&dnaBuffer=5&rwUse=false&skin=http://lads.myspacecdn.com/videos/default.xml&hb=true&adp=1&ln=&lh=&lf=&mn=&mh=&mf=&hn=&hh=&hf=&sfs=1&preTag=sz=1x200;&midTag=sz=1x204;&postTag=sz=1x203;&tickTag=sz=1x202;&illum=true&trackingID=28672899&ssprod=true&audcode=&ht=true&clickTag=&logerr=fal

If I click further forward or backward into the video I get lots of results for the GET php file (relative) Protocol, for example:

http://ve.tscapeplay.com/msve.php?dsv=1&dsid=501&b=ZXZ0PTU1MiZldmFsdT0wJmN0PTEyNzMwNjMwODgxMjUmbXBndWlkPWJmMTEzOTNiLWRjN2ItNDFlOS1hNzMzLTNjNTQ0NWYzNGYzOSZwaWQ9OTA0NTUxMzYzNzMzOTE5NTQ3NSZ1c2VpZD0xJmNpZD0xMDUwMzIzNzcmcGxpZD0wJnNlcT0xNg%3D%3D

Ideally I would like to find a method to find the exact streaming URL behind all those php results and download the video with a download manager, i.e. copy and paste the URL into the browser and save it.

If that does not work I am also happy if anyone can find a method with a stream recorder, preferably freeware but can also be commercial software.

If you think you have a solution please do try it out before you post it as I have tried many various way with stream recorders and without and so far have not managed.

Thanks for any help towards this.

[sam4037]

StreamTransport managed to download the above linked video and gives me

rtmpe://akafms-videos02.myspacecdn.com:443/ondemand/flv:180/vid_a1f90ad59bff4157aaf220c4dd653bc4

as stream URL.

Now I would like to know how to download this URL with rtmpdump. Is that possible?

When I try:

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://akafms-videos02.myspacecdn.com:443/ondemand/flv:180/vid_a1f90ad59bff4157aaf220c4dd653bc4" −v -o myspace_video_test_recording_1.flv

I get the error:

Connecting ...
ERROR: HandleCtrl: Ignoring SWFVerification request, use --swfVfy!
ERROR: rtmp server sent error
Starting Live Stream
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
0.000 kB / 0.00 sec
Download may be incomplete (downloaded about 0.00%), try resuming

Can someone here help me understand this error and show me how StreamTransport came up with the URL.

In URL Snooper I do find 2 entries for akafms-videos02.myspacecdn.com:

http://akafms-videos02.myspacecdn.com/crossdomain.xml

and

http://akafms-videos02.myspacecdn.com/fcs/ident

443 tells me this is HTTPS. So where can I learn about this and how I can get HTTPS flv videos with rtmpdump?

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