F4F capturing/converting

[bob82]

ciao Chug a Bug i cant believe that in IROKOTV they are so worry that somebody download movies....really when i try the firefox agent maybe is right what i find..but about manifest URL nothing with web console nothing with url snooper and be4 i delete all memories browser wuth ccleaner what i have to do!?!... u see the pics waiting news

[Chug a Bug]

Working fine here.

CLOSE the BROWSER then re-open it. CCleaner doesn't wipe anything in memory.



http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Firefox/

[bob82]

I am in Mantova North Italy..I use firefox 17.0 The upgrade is made today...Yes i close and re-open FIREFOX--a simple and fast operation no problem..
http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ In this page u read all . .u can see...Anyway nothing Happen .f4m is always empty.. with snooper or web console..
and VERY strange thing the same happen in that place where i can download all videos with DOWNLOADER HELP OR FLASHGOT
BUT the manifest url .f4m in consoleweb or URLsnooper is always empty any place i go ..
Could be some mistaken configuration in firefox i dont know
maybe u send me manifest that i can copy and paste in the php and i try if work..
about the user agent i think bcos i use 17.0 fiefox can be correct what i find in that page...Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0

a lot of thank u BOB.

[bob82]

other 2 pics

[Chug a Bug]

Try another browser, Internet Explorer for example. But start URL snooper -> Sniff Network - BEFORE you open the browser and navigate to the webpage with the movie and START the movie PLAYING.

USE THIS USERAGENT STRING:

 Mozilla/6.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:16.0.1) Gecko/20121011 Firefox/16.0.1

and by that I mean copy and paste it.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

edit: .f4m URL is here (doubt it'll still be valid by the time you read it though)

http://6h.c.ooyala.com/ptZXNvNDrjmcMivy3LNGSoQHHCeKFzYf/ptZXNvNDrjmcMivy3LNGSoQHHCeKFzYf_97.f4m

[bob82]

i open be4 snooper the firefox and with the 1st useragent that was just activated i read finally the manifest there are 2 strings. i saved in files option of snooper as text files i copy in cmd.exe KSV Adobe Downloader and now start the download......VERY HAPPY I HOPE THEN ALL WILL BE JOINED I GIVE U INFO LATER... really thousands of THANKS

P.S. WHEN START THE DOWNLOADING OF FRAGMENTS COULD I CHANGE THE MOVIE AND START ANOTHER?

[bob82]

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finished and joined greatest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[96mn12]

Hi everybody, newb here. I read the thread several times and have a couple of questions. I downloaded adobehds.php from https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts. Saved it on c:\php. When I do php adobehds.php --help, I get the code scrolling through. I dont get the help dialog, so what am I missing? Do I need to compile the adobehds.php file somehow?

Second questions, I am trying to get a movie from epixhd.com. I downloaded about 300 f4f files (just testing for now) using Replay Media Catcher.

I did the inspect network request (ctrl-shift-k) on firefox, and this is what I get:

REQUEST URL: http://epixhds-f.akamaihd.net/z/epix...200k,750k,450k,.mp4.csmil/0_ee8b5f6c472833a3_Seg1-Frag283?hdntl=exp=1355839166~acl=%2f*~data=hdntl~h mac=e53846d6eabf01048ba333e20295d59385093ed36e57fc a03aaadfca34801abb&als=304.7,300,22.49,5,3576,1191 51,24.31,122,0,253,f,1388.96,5886.63,f,s,WENQEFWJZ KIF,2.10.3,253&hdcore=2.10.3

I DO NOT get an f4m, but get all these paths and there is an MP4 there. This is for all files that I inspect. Here are the request headers:

User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Referer:http://suddenlink.epixhd.com/Epix.v3.2.2.swf
Host:epixhds-f.akamaihd.net

So for starters, how do I get adobehds.php to work properly? I downloaded the file from KVS scripts using firefox and chrome, and still get the error.
Second, how do I find the manifest file on the path above?

Thanks everyone!

[ladystar75]

Just registered to thank everyone who gave tips and instructions and posted their screencaps, etc, for helping me download my file! I had no knowledge of how to run PHP scripts or of F4F files and how to capture them, but with one day worth of research and this thread, I was able to download the file with no errors.
If anyone who's having trouble would like me to explain any of the steps I took to get it to work, feel free to ask!

Thanks again, guys!

[digitalfreaknyc]

So is there any way to convert the f4f file? Re-encode?

[rat6464]

Hi! I've been using the Adobe HDS downloader script for some days now, and it works great part of the time. But very often I get an error message concerning memory allocation (see attached image). It seems to be random when the error occurs, it can be at the beginning of a small 30 min video file, or near the end of a big 2 hour file. Any ideas what causes this, and more importantly, how to fix it?

[CristianoA]

contact with KSV

[mgh]

Hi! I've been using the Adobe HDS downloader script for some days now, and it works great part of the time. But very often I get an error message concerning memory allocation (see attached image). It seems to be random when the error occurs, it can be at the beginning of a small 30 min video file, or near the end of a big 2 hour file. Any ideas what causes this, and more importantly, how to fix it?
Attachment 15739

By default it downloads 8 fragments in parallel- might have something to do with it.

Other problem could be the quality high setting- by default it downloads the highest bit rate video in any case

try quality medium and parallel 4, individually and together

might solve problem

[TorresRJ]

Hey Guys.
Can someone help me to download this video?

Manifest: http://cdnvh20.cers.com.br/z/1791_013013_COMECANDO_DO_ZERO_D_CIVIL_AULA_01_Pt_I_OK.mp4...g=UDWSQBNHSMBB

Useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0

seg1-frag1: http://cdnvh20.cers.com.br/z/1791_013013_COMECANDO_DO_ZERO_D_CIVIL_AULA_01_Pt_I_OK.mp4...&hdcore=2.11.3

The message in the end is "Acess Denied! Unable to Download the manifest"

Thanks in advance,
TorresRJ.

c:\PHP>php adobehds.php --manifest "http://cdnvh20.cers.com.br/z/1791_013013_COMECANDO_DO_ZERO_D_CIVIL_AULA_01_Pt_I_OK.mp4/manifest.f4m?hdnea=st=1360944412~exp=1360944552~acl=/*~id=u00knms4hn2k3qrjok9rkg4r70~hmac=15c39bfcdaee9653a51cd19e11460899e25bb1ecdfabefa954896e35a8b53102&hdcore=2.11.3&g=UDWSQBNHSMBB" --auth "pvtoken=exp%3D9999999999%7Eacl%3D%252f%252a%7Edata%3DZXhwPTEzNjEwMzA4MTZ+YWNsPSUyZip+ZGF0YT1wdmMsc35obWFjPWQ1MjVmYjliY2QwYWJiMjA5NzY2NDhjYjIxNDYzYzU2YTRiZGNiYmU2YjNmYTA2ZDI3MmU0ZjJmZmYyYzI0Zjc%3D%21s89x42iJxsXVhAOpg7fnHAzKts3OjahmXO+ITcZGShk%3D%7Ehmac%3D78BA2D74E3BA231C9DE77F1BD9AEA34A89EB1BC96AE1711EBE144300E07914D3&hdntl=exp=1361030816~acl=%2f*~data=hdntl~hmac=3cac303acdc1018e60f7c1388cdf439c6b642cf7d14cbd53173664cfcad92bce&als=0,0.1,0,0,0,NaN,0,0,0,28,f,0,1811.02,f,s,UDWSQBNHSMBB,2.11.3,28&hdcore=2.11.3" --useragent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0" --delete

                            KSV Adobe HDS Downloader

Processing manifest info....
Access Denied! Unable to download the manifest.

[fabitos]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I got the manifest url with Firefox but when I try to download the parts, php gives me an error... can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong?

"Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expec
ted, '<' not found in E:\sixty\PHP\AdobeHDS.php on line 416

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ëPNG in E:\sixty\PHP\AdobeHDS.php on line 416

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in E:\sixty\PHP\AdobeHDS.php on line 416
Failed to load xml"

The files I'm trying to download are here: http://www.muchmore.ca/in-sixty/pid/...doubt-in-sixty
The 5 parts.

Thanks a lot in advance!

[jmojo]

Can anyone provide me with an example of how you would manually type in the correct syntax for combining F4F files? I have 10 F4F files that I would like to combine but I can't seem to figure out the proper way to enter them given the wiki page on AdobeHDS.

This is what I'm trying to extract and combine. It has no F4M available. I was just able to download individual F4F files with video downloader.
http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2013/02/26/p...-emigrantvisa/

Thanks!

[jmojo]

Can anyone provide me with an example of how you would manually type in the correct syntax for combining F4F files? I have 10 F4F files that I would like to combine but I can't seem to figure out the proper way to enter them given the wiki page on AdobeHDS.

This is what I'm trying to extract and combine. It has no F4M available. I was just able to download individual F4F files with video downloader.
http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2013/02/26/p...-emigrantvisa/

Thanks!

All I can ever get for output after is "Found 0 Fragments" .. It's like it doesn't recognize my F4F files.

[jmojo]

OK I figured out my problem. For anyone else interested, Firefox will not display the manifest url if you have Adblock enabled. Disabled Adblock and it showed up.

[Alex_ander]

Pl go to first post of http://stream-recorder.com/forum/ado...er-t12074.html
Install php as given there, and check that the installation is OK as given there.

Next go to https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/blo...2/AdobeHDS.php

copy the script given there into notepad, and save as all files "AdobeHDS.php" in the same folder where you have php.exe

That thread seems to have been removed from the SR forum. Could you please give me some details, which php installer version etc. should I use? I mainly want to join the 257 fragments, already downloaded. Tried some zipped php-5.4.13-Win32-VC9-x86.zip (probably it's for manual installation), unpacked it to d:\php and tried to apply the command you'd given for joining (the AdobeHDS.php and a couple of frаgments, like frag102 and frag103 for testing are in that directory). Nothing happens and I think something's wrong with the php - wrong version or not completed installation?

[mgh]

That thread seems to have been removed from the SR forum. Could you please give me some details, which php installer version etc. should I use? I mainly want to join the 257 fragments, already downloaded. Tried some zipped php-5.4.13-Win32-VC9-x86.zip (probably it's for manual installation), unpacked it to d:\php and tried to apply the command you'd given for joining (the AdobeHDS.php and a couple of frаgments, like frag102 and frag103 for testing are in that directory). Nothing happens and I think something's wrong with the php - wrong version or not completed installation?

See this new thread, start with first post
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/ado...er-t14823.html

[Alex_ander]

See this new thread, start with first post
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/ado...er-t14823.html

Thank you!

[caec32]

Ok I'll try and give an easy example of how to use Adobe HDS downloader script to download and join everything using the mainfest file, I'll use URL snooper in this example as its probably the easiest thing to use -

1) Open URL Snooper

2) Set the word ".f4m" in the filter box as we're only interested in the manifest file, click "Sniff Network" and open the browser and start the video playing.

3) In the space below URL's will start appearing, this is the traffic were interested in. Note there are several .f4m URL's listed in this case so we'll have use our brains here: the manifest we're looking for usually begins with a "GET" command - this is the one we want.
- right click on it and choose "Copy Selected URL's to Clipboard"

4) Open Notepad, paste our URL into our Adobe HDS downloader command line, save with .bat extension, double click batch file to start it running

5) Adobe HDS downloader is processing the manifest file - notice this video has 3 separate bitrates, 1800, 1000, 400 - the script will choose the highest quality available and download and then join the fragments automatically.

Enjoy your downloaded video.

I can confirm that this solution is working. I wanted to download bought video from Vimeo. I sniffed .f4m URL with URL Snooper (you can also use Firefox Dev. tools) and then run Adobe HDS downloader to download and split files.

Thank you for this tip!

[fgt_fred]

Hi

How can i join and convert F4F files? Or a capture application would be good what is capable of downloading and converting these videos ( from a news site )

I searched google, but there are few informations about this thing, and no converters

By the descriptions it is a fragmented flash flv, or mp4 video, but VLC player and the standalone Flash player cannot open it

I tried many downloader-converter apps and toolbars, but few of them could download, and even, none of them could convert (convert failed)


Thanks in advace for any help

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[Alex_ander]

Replay Capture Suite.

I'm a bit sceptical about a single all-capable program. Streaming solutions change quickly since they are not much dependent on browser, the site simply sends you next player with new protection type which communicates with server.
You still can find advertisment pages for software not too long ago capable of downloading videos from Comedy Central or e.g. Taratata. Unlike recently, that doesn't work anymore. Applian's MediaCatcher4 as well reports 'protected'.
As for the subject of the current thread, segmented http streams, I recently was able to download chunks of a file, then join them. Now a site like DailyMotion (or 3030fm) can send chunks without numbers in file name so you can't request a chunk by sequential number or bitrate version. The manifest .mnft file also seems to be different from usual Adobe's type, not sure the currently used script will parse it for direct download.