How to grab entire CSPAN video at one time?

[Nomorecocktails]

URL: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocratsonIm
XML file: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/se...id=324984&

As you can see from the xml file CSPAN has broken the video up into 5 minute chunks. I know how to grab the parts but is there any way to get the entire video at one time, short of screen capping?

[CristianoA]

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org:1935/fastplay" -a "fastplay" -f "WIN 11,8,800,174" -W "http://static.c-spanvideo.org/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.13.08.15.swf" -p "http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocratsonIm" -y "mp4:full/2013/10/02/20131002145928003_hd.mp4" -o "2013-10-03_03-48-19_20131002145928003_hd.flv"

[blimey]

it come in one piece for me.

cspan basically copy the live stream in both 5 minute and 1 hour chunks. sometimes the flash player link to one or the other or both. and sometimes it changes to the 1 hour chunks later after some time has passed since the first live broadcast of the program. sometimes they later make a trimmed copy of some programs with its own dedicated filename.

but if you have seen enough of the cspan rtmp links, you will see the pattern to the 1 hour and 5 minute links by sequential timestamp of the filename. you can call these rtmp urls independently of what the flash player calls, if you know the timeframe you need. you also can call the hd and std versions separately too if you know how the url naming works.

[Nomorecocktails]

Originally Posted by blimey

it come in one piece for me.

cspan basically copy the live stream in both 5 minute and 1 hour chunks. sometimes the flash player link to one or the other or both. and sometimes it changes to the 1 hour chunks later after some time has passed since the first live broadcast of the program. sometimes they later make a trimmed copy of some programs with its own dedicated filename.

but if you have seen enough of the cspan rtmp links, you will see the pattern to the 1 hour and 5 minute links by sequential timestamp of the filename. you can call these rtmp urls independently of what the flash player calls, if you know the timeframe you need. you also can call the hd and std versions separately too if you know how the url naming works.

I am starting to figure out the url naming scheme. And I have been using ffmpeg of late to grab the videos using the m3u8 url. Do all videos have a hd AND std version? If i can get the std version each time that is better since it does not have all the extra crap like in the hd stream.