I had great success capturing a lot of the .m3u8 streams from NBCOlympics.com using ffmpeg and it got me wanting to understand more about stream capturing so I could try it from other sites.
For example, if I wanted to capture the stream for one of the episodes of "The Next" on CW (eg.
http://www.cwtv.com/cw-video/the-nex...-82b68242f053), how should I go about it? How do I decide on the best tool(s) to use and what are the types of URLs to look for when I don't see a recognizable (eg. .m3u8) extension in the URL? Using Firefox's web console and following the same masking technique I used to get NBCOlympics video URLs, I ended up with:
http://warnerbros.112.2o7.net/b/ss/wbrosthecw/0/FAS-2.8.1-AS3/s19248463488183?AQB=1&ndh=1&t=25/8/2012%2015%3A22%3A53%202%20420&ce=ISO-8859-1&ns=warnerbros&cdp=3&pageName=New%20York&g=http%3 A//www.cwtv.com/cw-video/the-next/new-york/%3Fplay%3D15dddd4c-63cb-4ddd-8361-82b68242f053&cc=USD&events=event1&v1=TheCW.us&v2=V ideo&v7=The%20Next&v8=New%20York&v20=Inline&pe=lnk _o&pev2=event1&s=1600x1200&AQE=1
but have no idea what to do with it if that is in fact what it should look like.
Can anyone provide some guidance?
Thanks!