How capture TRICKY streaming videos from the internet

[montango]

Hello,

I searched a lot and found no answer. Maybe you can help:

There is an internet page that displays streaming videos (TV shows) that are not detected by most Windows and Linux downloading software: Orbit, Replay Media Catcher (Windows) or Video Downloader, Downloadhelper, etc in Linux (ubuntu)

In Windows the only program that I managed to do the job with is "Stream Transport", and got .mp4 files that I could watch later.

But I don't have windows anymore, it is corrupted. In ubuntu, however, the many firefox add-ons, stand alone programs that I tested, don't see the video file. In the source of the page I don't understand anything, everything is concealed under javascript text... The video is not saved in the firefox cache.

How can I capture it? Does anybody know how to deal with this kind of well-concealed video files?

In theory, it should be possible to record everything that comes into the machine, but how?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. By TRICKY I mean something non-standard (not youtube, dailymotion, etc).

[ron999]

Well first you need to know the URL of the webpage.

[rayj]

Have you tried copying the file directly out of /tmp?

[montango]

@ron999:

http://inregistrari.antena3.ro/view-...a_Badea-5.html

(for example)

@rayj:

the flash file is not stored in /tmp, nor in firefox cache, or at least I haven't found it.

[ron999]

@montango
That video can be downloaded using a program called RTMPDump.

sudo apt-get install rtmpdump

Then use this command:-

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://fms30.mediadirect.ro:1935/recantena3?id=14458935" -a "recantena3?id=14458935" -f "LNX 10,1,102,64" -W "http://static.mediadirect.ro/streamrecord/new3/player.swf" -p "http://inregistrari.antena3.ro/view-In_gura_presei_cu_Mircea_Badea-5.html" -C O:1 -C O:0 -y "mp4:In_Gura_Presei_2011-03-03_23-10-00_low.mp4" -o mp4_In_Gura_Presei_2011-03-03_23-10-00_low.flv

[montango]

Thanks, ron999!

Works great! A little tricky, however, if I choose to download a show from another day (I have to put the correct date between "...view" and "In_gura_presei...", but I just tried and it works, too!

I'll figure out for myself how to use rtmpdump for other pages. Thanks a lot for now!

[montango]

Actually, this doesn't seem to be very easy, unless I do the same thing for the same show, but for other dates... How did you get all the parameters? I only found

http://static.mediadirect.ro/streamr...ew3/player.swf

in the page source, but I still have no idea what mean

-r "rtmpe://fms30.mediadirect.ro:1935/recantena3?id=14458935" -a "recantena3?id=14458935" -f "LNX 10,1,102,64"

As for the names of the files, I remember that Stream Transport did name them similarly indeed, so there must be a rule...

This still looks tricky to me...

I suppose the fact I don't know what rtmp is doesn't bring me any further...

[ron999]

Hi montango
Use rtmpdump -h for help.

Look at your command:-

rtmpdump
-r "rtmpe://fms30.mediadirect.ro:1935/recantena3?id=14458935"
-a "recantena3?id=14458935"
-f "LNX 10,1,102,64"
-W "http://static.mediadirect.ro/streamrecord/new3/player.swf"
-p "http://inregistrari.antena3.ro/view-In_gura_presei_cu_Mircea_Badea-5.html"
-C O:1
-C O:0
-y "mp4:In_Gura_Presei_2011-03-03_23-10-00_low.mp4"
-o mp4_In_Gura_Presei_2011-03-03_23-10-00_low.flv

Maybe keep everything the same except for those -y and -o dates.

[ron999]

Hi montango

I use this method to find the links:-

1) Start the server.

sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT && rtmpsrv

Message in terminal is:- "Streaming on rtmp://0.0.0.0:1935"

2) Refresh the page and start the video.

3) Watch for links to display in terminal... then

4) Use control-C to stop the process.

5) Stop the server.

sudo iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT

6) Copy and paste your links to download the video.

[montango]

Hm... It doesn't work anymore

Now I found the links, but when I type tyem, it says

RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
ERROR: RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 111 (Connection refused)

And it says so for the commands that already worked before..

I don't get it