trouble recording Big Brother Canada Live Stream with rtmpdump

[FrankSR]

The Big Brother Canada Live Streams are here:
http://bigbrothercanada.slice.ca/video/live/

They are only available to Canadian IPs

I've managed to record streams using rtmpdumphelper (which uses rtmpsuck)

Here is a screen shot of rtmpsuck called by rtmpdumphelper. I was not able to copy the text from this window.
http://imgur.com/wZvSCiF

and here is a relevant capture using Wireshark

connect.?..........app...mogulus-edge/bigbrothercanada1..flashVer...WIN 11,6,602,171..swfUrl...http://cdn.livestream.com/chro.melessPlayer/v21/playerapi.swf?color=0xe7e7e7&mute=false&allowchat=true&jsEnabled=false&iconColor=0x777777&iconColorOver=0x88888.8&autoPlay=true&time=..tcUrl..Rrtmp://xbigbrothercanada1x.e.channel.livestream.com/mogulus-edge/bigbrothercanada1..fpad....capab.ilities.@m........audioCodecs.@.........videoCodecs.@o.......
videoFunction.?.........pageUrl...http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/.bigbrothercanada1?layout=4&color=0xe7e7e7&autoPlay=true&mute=false&iconColorOver=0x888888&iconColor=0x777777&allowchat=true..obj.ectEncoding...............player....instance391.......viewerId.. d581f19c3eadec1828991bd49269d5f3..devKey..kGO2kKNTS471iv-G6HNWV.S0LmuTRQfhkeRkW6v7vb9i4YDXmFk_8_2SH15O-gWk9T-gOnI17jx1hmGfrOI_OlTNMle-U1FTclV5B4bqXn3yM..version...WIN 11,6,602,171..embedUrl..,.http://bigbrothercanada.slice.ca/video/live/..os...Windows 7..browser...Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64.; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NE.T CLR 1.1.4322)......password.A.......

The problem is that I would like to reliably capture more than one of those streams at a time and rtmpdumphelper can only capture one stream at a time and I also need the stream playing in the browser to capture it.

I also tried Replay Media Catcher and I can capture many streams at once but it's very processor intensive, the streams also need to be playing in the browser and they randomly stop playing after a while.

I would like to use rtmpdump to capture the streams but I can't figure out the correct parameters. Hopefully I could script it so that streams resume capture if they drop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[AmazingMatze]

This command did the trick for me:

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmp://cp86438.live.edgefcs.net/live" -a "live" -f "WIN 11,6,602,171" -W "http://cdn.livestream.com/chromelessPlayer/v21/playerapi.swf" -p "http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/bigbrothercanada1?layout=4&color=0xe7e7e7&autoPlay=true&mute=false&iconColorOver=0x888888&iconColor=0x777777&allowchat=true" -y "livestream6_93@24304" -o "BB_livestream.flv"

I could only gather some data from the connect request because the site somehow detected that I am not a canadian citizen (although I used a canadian proxy).

However I got the missing parameters "r" and "y" from your uploaded picture.

Btw: If selecting text from the inside of your command prompt doesn't work, you have to rightclick on the top window bar and you should be able to select "Edit -> Mark".
Then Select the text you want to copy and rightclick on it. This copies the text to the clipboard.

If you are using KSV's Version of RTMPDump/RTMPSuck it will automatically create a batchfile for you.

I guess this should be the most recent version:

http://stream-recorder.com/forum/showpost.php?p=60019&postcount=10

The other feeds should work accordingly.

[FrankSR]

Thanks for the reply, your rtmp command works!

I actually found a much simpler solution to my problem though

I use Livestreamer

https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer

livestreamer www.livestream.com/bigbrothercanada# best -o output.flv

where # is the camera number I want.

It works great.

Thanks again for looking into it!