How to download Silverlight video from FixPlay (Channel 9)

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See http://bit.ly/bKIRYm

Followup: One of the authors of RTLdownloader (for Silverlight streams on RTL Most Hungarian TV) suggests it should be possible to use ISMDownloader, which is a more generic application, to download Silverlight streams from FixPlay.

The RTL one was of course customized for that server.

ISMDownloader is available at:
http://dvb-crew.atw.hu/applications/...downloader.zip

Usage -
ismdownloader <manifest url> <output: *.mkv>

Obviously, this needs the manifest URL, so you will need to use an HTTP monitor application, such as Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/). There are other such utilities, of course.

I believe that the ISM utility locates the optimum bandwidth stream for your system/connection**, then downloads the fragments, and finally merges all the fragments into a final, playable .MKV file package.

** (not sure of this, or if it merely takes the highest bandwidth available on the server)