How to use RTMPDump? - rtmp dump tutorials

[idontexist]

rtmpdump used in conjunction with url snooper is not working for me. Please help.

I have tried using all the rtmp results that url snooper showed in the rtmpdump command and all I get are error messages from rtmp.

Here is the website that contains the video I want to download. It is a video about rebuilding a Ford 460 engine from Powerblock tv. Roughly two advertisement videos are shown first and then the video I want about the engine. The video I want runs for about 17 minutes.

http://www.powerblocktv.com/episode/...k#.VTNryJOzkgJ

I am running Firefox 37.0.1 to watch that video under Windows 7.

When I run url snooper while the video I want is playing, it has only listed 3 results that begin with rtmp. All the rest of its results begin with http or maybe https. I had already clicked the "autodetermine network adapter now" button. I had entered the url of the webpage I listed above into the box at the bottom of url snooper in its "search" window and then clicked the "download" button.

I ran the rtmpdump command 3 times, once with each of the rtmp results shown by url snooper and the video never downloaded. In url snooper, I selected "copy selected urls to clipboard (strip all args)".

I ran the rtmpdump command in this form:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://URL-SNOOPER-RESULT" - o video.flv

I know nothing more about any of this than what I have mentioned. I have no idea what a swf file is or anything else.

I am new at this so please, if it is not too much trouble, completely list all the steps and commands that work for you to get this video.

Help!!! Please!!!

[hasomaso]

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://brightcove-04.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/a500/v1/uds/rtmp" -a "a500/v1/uds/rtmp?videoId=1217326897001&lineUpId=&pubId=1105443286001&playerId=2013714279001&affiliateId=" -f "WIN 17,0,0,169" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us20150326.1403/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf" -p "http://www.powerblocktv.com/episode/HP2009-04/budget-460-big-block" -C B:0 -C "S:mp4:1105443286001/201502/706/1105443286001_4035609429001_HP0904-Webshow-H264-1920-AAC.mp4&1429470000000&4f50c6304b15ab14d261ee4925359958" -y "mp4:1105443286001/201502/706/1105443286001_4035609429001_HP0904-Webshow-H264-1920-AAC.mp4?videoId=1217326897001&lineUpId=&pubId=1105443286001&playerId=2013714279001&affiliateId=" -o "outfile.flv"

RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2015-01-15 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
WARNING: You haven't specified an output file (-o filename), using stdout
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration                1069.67
INFO:   moovPosition            48.00
INFO:   width                   640.00
INFO:   height                  360.00
INFO:   videocodecid            avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid            mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile              100.00
INFO:   avclevel                30.00
INFO:   aacaot                  2.00
INFO:   videoframerate          29.97
INFO:   audiosamplerate         44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels           2.00
INFO: tags:
INFO:   ┬®too                   Lavf53.24.2
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                  3205500.00
INFO:   timescale               2997.00
INFO:   language                eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype              avc1
INFO:   length                  47172608.00
INFO:   timescale               44100.00
INFO:   language                eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype              mp4a
4868.013 kB / 44.95 sec (4.2%)

[idontexist]

Thank you for posting that information.

I am shocked at the amount of data that had to be entered into the command.

Is there a step-by-step tutorial anywhere that would show me how to do whatever you did to generate the command line you posted?

I have read some of the earlier postings here and for someone new like myself, they are not very clear in some places and seem to assume I know some things I do not know and it seems that a lot of the tutorials say there is some guesswork as to which strings get put into which command line arguments.

After I made my post here, I tried about a dozen tools I found with Google. One of them worked and downloaded this video for me and I did not have to know anything more than how to cut and paste the website url of the webpage containing the video into a text box in this tool. The tool that worked is "rtmpexplorer". To make it work on my pc, I simply copied it plus two dll files that came with it along with rtmpdump and rtmpsrv, both downloaded from the rtmpdump site, to the same folder.

I have been using two video downloading tools which almost always work ("download flash & video" and "video download helper"), but both of those tools would not download the engine building video I mentioned in my OP. One other time, this also happened.

I have no idea why a very small number of videos fail to be downloaded by these tools when so many other videos are downloaded with no problems.

Maybe now the addition of this third tool, rtmpexplorer, will fix this problem.

In any event, based on my own experience downloading flash videos for a few years, I do recommend the 3 tools I mentioned here.