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

[mce]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Problem today with any rtmp:// protocol shows (the http:// ones are still downloadable with curl).

[edit]
Worse than that - it looks like a rethink on the parsing is needed.

Yep...

[mce]

A lot tougher than I thought it might be.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by mce

A lot tougher than I thought it might be.

Is a security token needed?

[mce]

Umm, sort of yes.

The url to get a http download is now:

hxxp://sbsauvod-f.akamaihd.net/SBS_Production/managed/2012/03/2219572018%20_,128,512,1000,1500,K.mp4.csmil/bitrate=0?v=2.5.14&fp=WIN%2011,2,202,233&r=QGAJN&g =PNQYTSDEJQSX

Of course its http.

That is for James May's Man Lab S02E07

the r= and g= seem to be the token checking and I havent yet found where that is from.

The other ones I'm assuming are from the player.

[gxdata]

Is that derivable from any of the JSON files? That is, can you find that SMIL file within one?

And rtmp:// - is the trend to all http:// do you think?

(also, we may lose WP as a forum for SBS - as with iView)

[gxdata]

It looks like the r= and g= tokens change with time. I will check this more rigorously, later.

Saying that, I had failures with -

The World's Most Beautiful Sites S2 Ep37 - El Escorial Monastery

--- 2 attempts, same URL (r, g as follows)

'http://sbsauvod-f.akamaihd.net/SBS_Production/managed/2012/04/2222341564_,128,512,1000,1500,K.mp4.csmil/bitrate=2?v=2.5.14&fp=WIN%2011,1,102,55&r=MADHF&g= XDFCPGQCWAKW'

--- a few minutes later, used FF/FG to get URL, tried again

'http://sbsauvod-f.akamaihd.net/SBS_Production/managed/2012/04/2222341564_,128,512,1000,1500,K.mp4.csmil/bitrate=2?v=2.5.14&fp=WIN%2011,1,102,55&r=LNQSO&g= BXINBBBTSGRJ'
---

(that failed, too - unusual, as several downloads using this method with VLC to do the actual download have all worked, albeit very slowly)

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--- 19/04/2012 @ 7:55 PM WAST
'http://sbsauvod-f.akamaihd.net/SBS_Production/managed/2012/04/2222341564_,128,512,1000,1500,K.mp4.csmil/bitrate=3?v=2.5.14&fp=WIN%2011,1,102,55&r=QUIPW&g= BXINBBBTSGRJ&seek=82.92'
(left off seek when using VLC)
---
Note changed r and g values, again
(bitrate=3 this time)
(downloading now)

[eegee]

Anyone tried using Firefox for the actual downloads?

Now that we've been rudely flung from the akamai world of rtmp streaming to that of adobe http dynamic streaming (and hope that there's a buffering/multi-threading/downloading solution on the horizon), I've finally had a chance this evening to go down the new long-winded downloading path:

- rather than extra addons, just used coojah6 the url sniffer;
- tweaked the bitrate in the video url;
- downloaded with Firefox, saving as .mp4 file;
- had concurrent downloads running in Firefox;
- although the initial file-size is reported as 2GB, it stops without problem once the actual (much shorter) stream finishes;
- remuxed ok with ffmpeg;

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by eegee

Anyone tried using Firefox for the actual downloads?
<snip>
- downloaded with Firefox, saving as .mp4 file;

That's probably neater/quicker than using FoxGet/DTA and finishing with VLC Media Player. I am finding the VLC streaming download to be very very slow.

I will try a 'download finish' with a standa-alone multi-streaming download manager (using a sniffed URL), if they work.

Did you note the download rate (or, time for XXMb final file size)?

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by eegee

used coojah6 the url sniffer;

I remember now - the Chinese UI of Coojah 6 installer was so off-putting, when I tried it in October 2010, that I removed it before trying its functionality. The same version (identical checksum on EXE) is still available (no updates). But there is a newer, similar product - MediaBox - last updated in 2012.

So I downloaded MediaBox (same webpage/developer)

But it is not useful for me, though it has English-language buttons etc - because on 64-bit Windows it does not function at all (warning messages, in English) unless the browsers (FireFox, IE9, etc) that it is URL-sniffing are run as Administrator.

Then, the URL has to be changed (ie, the bitrate), and I could not get its accompanying downloader to download the corrected URL that I gave it. Of course, another downloader could be used.

Frankly, I found that FF+FG+DTA, then VLC Media Player to save, was just as simple.

But I will try again with other combinations....

[eegee]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Did you note the download rate (or, time for XXMb final file size)?

Download rates reported by FF (as MB/s) pretty much correspond to video bitrate (~64MB/s for 512K video...factor of 8). Time taken~running time displayed by viewer.