Need to capture this devilish Streaming video!!

[adrian44]

I've just realised that I haven't posted since 2006, so I could actually be the world's lurking champion

Anyway, there is a streaming video that I want to capture in 720p quality, but everything I've tried failed; stream transport, url helper, flv recorder, all firefox addons, and I even let it play then examined the cache just to find little bits of about 1 mb each that wouldn't play Here is the link and hope you can help me (the link looks weird because the url is in Arabic)

http://shahid.mbc.net/ar/episode/80663/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2-%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%B4-%D8...%D8%A9-13.html

[poisondeathray]

ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i "http://l3md.shahid.net/media/l3/2fda1d3fd7ab453cad983544e8ed70e4/add9a32d97544ba894fea8b43f9373f7/ef507e58d35b4bd1b47bd04bbd45c32d/ramez_karesh_al_bahar_s01_e13_vod.mpegts/playlist-902ac08664b6bbebd835ee728fe6c24a9616937a.m3u8" -c:v copy -c:a copy output.ts

[adrian44]

poisondeathray, you are pretty much my personal hero!!!

Two quick questions:

1) How did you get the code and the url so I could do it on my own in future
2) Now I have a black command line window with what looks like the file being downloaded and written. When this is over, where will I find the file?

Thanks you a million times.

[poisondeathray]

1) How did you get the code and the url so I could do it on my own in future

I used firefox, with adblock . There is an option "open blockable items", use that and use the search function for "m3u8". It will filter out all the other junk and give you these entries in this example:

http://l3md.shahid.net/media/l3/2fda1d3fd7ab453cad983544e8ed70e4/add9a32d97544ba894fea8b43f9373f7/d37c8dba638648c58eb14d491a46e057/ramez_karesh_al_bahar_s01_e13_vod.mpegts/playlist-e88dbf935bdf8e00edf9e6ef8531330ea058951f.m3u8
http://l3md.shahid.net/media/l3/2fda1d3fd7ab453cad983544e8ed70e4/add9a32d97544ba894fea8b43f9373f7/e3bfe170ed0f41d08df23922d2210afc/ramez_karesh_al_bahar_s01_e13_vod.mpegts/playlist-51c941461ebfa9bf0f432f878c023a7ef90d5ca0.m3u8
http://l3md.shahid.net/media/l3/2fda1d3fd7ab453cad983544e8ed70e4/add9a32d97544ba894fea8b43f9373f7/ef507e58d35b4bd1b47bd04bbd45c32d/ramez_karesh_al_bahar_s01_e13_vod.mpegts/playlist-902ac08664b6bbebd835ee728fe6c24a9616937a.m3u8
http://l3md.shahid.net/media/l3/2fda1d3fd7ab453cad983544e8ed70e4/add9a32d97544ba894fea8b43f9373f7/fc9547a5e6ce446c8cfb39404bac70bb/ramez_karesh_al_bahar_s01_e13_vod.mpegts/playlist-16b59a5ffaab737a98bc78df450f0bdefdb52409.m3u8

Each m3u8 corresponds to a different version (different resolution) of the streaming video. You don't have to physically download each video and test each one, just use ffmpeg -i input.m3u8 and look at the resolution

2) Now I have a black command line window with what looks like the file being downloaded and written. When this is over, where will I find the file?

Video will be saved where the path you specified . If you didn't specify a path, it will be at the directory level where you opened the command prompt

Next time, if you want to specify a path or directory folder for the output file

ffmpeg -i input.ext -c:v copy -c:a copy "PATH\output.ts"

Where "PATH" is c:\folder\some folder\ etc.....

[adrian44]

*bowing my head in absolute gratitude*