www.sbs.com.au- Download RTMP video from Australian TV web-site

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Working RTMP downloaders for SBS Online:

• sbsNapper by MCE (Freeware / Windows)
  
• SBS Downloader Windows (command line) by elfst0ne (Freeware / Windows) port of lightguard's script
  
• SBS Downloader (GUI) by Anywho (Freeware / Linux)

Broken downloaders:

• SBS Downloader OSX (Bash Script) (Freeware / Mac OS X)
  
• ShowGrabberAU by lightguard (Freeware / Windows)

See also:
FAQ: How to record/download/capture/save Adobe Flash .FLV video RTMP stream from embedded player
How to record rtmp:// flash video .flv stream from embedded Adobe Flash Player

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Originally Posted by any ANONYMOUS forum user

SBS Downloader (GUI) by Anywho (Freeware / Linux)

I've been using Replay Media Catcher and WM Recorder for downloading SVS video streams successfully. But I need a downloader for Linux as well. Where can I download the SBS Downloader for Linux?

[randybull]

sbsNapper_20110722 error "Cannot open Channel 94 Too many automatic redirections were attempted"

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by any ANONYMOUS forum user

Where can I download the SBS Downloader for Linux?

You can download it from here. Note that it is currently broken. mvdk apparently has a fix, but hasn't posted it yet

If I get some more time in the next couple of weeks, I'll bash it up and see if I can convince the code to work.

(Also have to wait for SBS to get more reliable at the moment )

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by randybull

sbsNapper_20110722 error "Cannot open Channel 94 Too many automatic redirections were attempted"

You may need to send a private message to mce, to see if he has any ideas on how to fix the SBS Napper.

[gxdata]

FTR, everything returned to normal about 36-48h ago. (I have) no explanation why browsing to the important URLs worked, but SBSNapper could not connect.

[gxdata]

SBS has increased its bitrate and number of streaming options (at different bitrates / quality), from 3 to sometimes 4.

eg, 'Trafficked' is available in (nominal bitrate) 128K, 300K, 1000K
(see hxxp://player.sbs.com.au/video/smil/index/standalone/346597)
and 'The Bombing Of Germany Full Ep' is available in 128K, 512K, 1000K, 1500K.
(see hxxp://player.sbs.com.au/video/smil/index/standalone/515791)

I discovered this while poking around, when SBSNapper was not connecting well over the last 3 days. I reverted to batch downloading (using a very ad hoc method), and this involved looking at various XML files with a browser.

Also, I noticed that some shows were very large for the time duration - due to a bigger bitrate for the video. The audio bitrate doesn't contribute much file size.

MediaInfo (hhtp://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/) is useful to see bitrate for both the video and the audio, once a show is downloaded.

afaik, unfortunately, RTMPdump displays the duration, audio and video bitrates etc - but cannot feed the info back to the calling program (eg, SBSNapper or other downloaders).

SBSNapper has 3 buttons for different bitrates, which is quite useful.

I have been experimenting with some code that reads the show's XML file (eg, 515791 for 'The Bombing Of Germany '), and displays the correct number of buttons with the nominal bitrate displayed as the button text. Not a very useful function, but it amused me for an hour or so.

The last few days has made me contemplate whether SBS may change their streaming system quite drastically, sometime soon. That will be more fun!

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

SBS has increased its bitrate and number of streaming options (at different bitrates / quality), from 3 to sometimes 4.

eg, 'Trafficked' is available in (nominal bitrate) 128K, 300K, 1000K
(see hxxp://player.sbs.com.au/video/smil/index/standalone/346597)
and 'The Bombing Of Germany Full Ep' is available in 128K, 512K, 1000K, 1500K.
(see hxxp://player.sbs.com.au/video/smil/index/standalone/515791)

I discovered this while poking around, when SBSNapper was not connecting well over the last 3 days. I reverted to batch downloading (using a very ad hoc method), and this involved looking at various XML files with a browser.

Mate, you are way behind the times
hxxp://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1342590&p=17#r333

[gxdata]

Mate, you are way behind the times

Yeh, I'm always a bit slooow

The video bitrate (MediaInfo) is up to 2000Kbps on some of these.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

The video bitrate (MediaInfo) is up to 2000Kbps on some of these.

Yeah, I've noticed similar too (over 3Mbps).

It's good that they've increased potential bit rates. It always annoys me seeing scenes that have oceans or smoke portrayed as checker-board patterns, or fast moving objects that jitter around the screen.