www.thehorseshow.com: viewing/downloading steamhoster video on 384kb/s ADSL

[willemvdm]

I am trying to view or download the videos from this site:

http://www.thehorseshow.com/rfd_schedule.aspx

The problem is I only have a 384kb/s connection and video is basically unwatchable. I've tried Orbit Downloader and various other downloaders, all with the same result: Lots of dropped frames and out of sink audio, leaving the video still unwatchable. Usually with youtube and alike, I just pause the video and once completely buffered, I watch the video, but with streamhoster buffering stops when paused.

I've tried rtmpdump and got the following:

C:\Users\Willem>rtmpdump -r rtmp://fss28.streamhoster.com/lambemail/The Horse Sh
ow test/The_Horse_Show_Episode_278_Webcast.mp4 -e -o 278.mp4
RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
WARNING: Received FLV packet before play()! Ignoring.

Any suggestions as to what I can do to see these videos. Aren't there any sites out there that will capture rtmp streams and convert them to another more download friendly format. Even if it is a pay site. Another possibility, is there perhaps free website code (user friendly and foolproof) that I could put on my own website (with more bandwidth) that will capture the stream and save it so I can download it from my site.

Unfortunately, upgrading to higher speed ADSL is not an option. I'm too far from the exchange.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If your connection is not fast enough for a live stream or if the server you're trying to download from is too busy, you can get dropped frames. There is nothing you can do about it, when you download / capture live streams, unless you get a better connection.

p.s. You can ask your friends or relatives to record.

As for on-demand RTMP streams, you shouldn't have any problems downloading them. I don't have any problem downloading this stream with Replay Media Catcher. You can try many other RTMP flash stream recorders as well:
FAQ: How to record/download/capture/save Adobe Flash .FLV video RTMP stream from embedded player

[nullacht]

Originally Posted by willemvdm

I am trying to view or download the videos from this site:

http://www.thehorseshow.com/rfd_schedule.aspx

Originally Posted by willemvdm

I've tried rtmpdump and got the following:

WARNING: Received FLV packet before play()! Ignoring.

That works for me:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://fss28.streamhoster.com/lambemail" -a "lambemail" -y "mp4:The Horse Show test/THS_322.mp4" -o THS_322.flv --live

RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   timescale             32000.00
INFO:   length                49920000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
INFO:   timescale             2997.00
INFO:   length                4675300.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       32000.00
INFO:   videoframerate        29.97
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   avclevel              21.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   frameWidth            512.00
INFO:   frameHeight           288.00
INFO:   displayWidth          512.00
INFO:   displayHeight         288.00
INFO:   moovposition          32.00
INFO:   duration              1560.00
116058.640 kB / 1559.97 sec (99.9%)
Download complete

[willemvdm]

I got rtmpdump working thanks, however, just like all the other stream capture programs, I ended up with a file with lots of frame drops and out of sync audio. The problem seem to be that the streamhoster server detects a slow connection and then start dropping frames to compensate and no client side software can do anything about it. I did however came up with a solution to my problem. A friend of mine has a VPS and he installed rmtpdump on the VPS for me to use. So I dump the stream to the VPS and then download it. So now I'm getting the full 140-150MB file instead of the 45MB file I use to get. Thanks for your help.

[getflv]

Originally Posted by willemvdm

I got rtmpdump working thanks, however, just like all the other stream capture programs, I ended up with a file with lots of frame drops and out of sync audio. The problem seem to be that the streamhoster server detects a slow connection and then start dropping frames to compensate and no client side software can do anything about it. I did however came up with a solution to my problem. A friend of mine has a VPS and he installed rmtpdump on the VPS for me to use. So I dump the stream to the VPS and then download it. So now I'm getting the full 140-150MB file instead of the 45MB file I use to get. Thanks for your help.

Please try GetFLV. Maybe it can help you.