How can I *download* streaming videos (i.e. TV shows) from Spike.com?

[bluebear]

How can I download the TV shows on Spike.com

http://www.spike.com/episodes/pykcgc/the-joe-schmo-show-the-bounty-begins-season-1-ep-101

I prefer to download a file, rather than playing the video and then capturing the video as it plays.

Note: I use Linux. If you have any advice for Linux users, that would be appreciated. But I'm open to hearing of Windows instructions too.

[bluebear]

OP here. I'm using youtube-dl. Seems pretty simple to use. But don't know why it spilts up a video into segments.

[biezom]

OP here. I'm using youtube-dl. Seems pretty simple to use. But don't know why it spilts up a video into segments.

because if you look closely there are 5 parts in the video on the site
but with ffmpeg you can assemble

[bluebear]

Thank you, blezom.


I have a problem downloading subtitles.

I tried "youtube-dl --list-subs http://www.spike.com/episodes/pykcgc/the-joe-schmo-show-the-bounty-begins-season-1-ep-101", but youtube-dl just downloads the videos. I expected the command to list all available subtitles.

If you go to the URL in a web browser, you'll see that closed captions are an option.

[biezom]

Thank you, blezom.


I have a problem downloading subtitles.

I tried "youtube-dl --list-subs http://www.spike.com/episodes/pykcgc/the-joe-schmo-show-the-bounty-begins-season-1-ep-101", but youtube-dl just downloads the videos. I expected the command to list all available subtitles.

If you go to the URL in a web browser, you'll see that closed captions are an option.

youtube-dl does not detect the subtitles for this site. but I detected them for you.

http://a10.akadl.mtvnservices.com/9950/mtvnorigin/gsp.spikecomstor/media/shows/joe_schmo/s01/e01/schmo_101_act1.dfxp.xml

http://a10.akadl.mtvnservices.com/9950/mtvnorigin/gsp.spikecomstor/media/shows/joe_schmo/s01/e01/schmo_101_act2.dfxp.xml

http://a10.akadl.mtvnservices.com/9950/mtvnorigin/gsp.spikecomstor/media/shows/joe_schmo/s01/e01/schmo_101_act3.dfxp.xml

http://a10.akadl.mtvnservices.com/9950/mtvnorigin/gsp.spikecomstor/media/shows/joe_schmo/s01/e01/schmo_101_act4.dfxp.xml

http://a10.akadl.mtvnservices.com/9950/mtvnorigin/gsp.spikecomstor/media/shows/joe_schmo/s01/e01/schmo_101_act5.dfxp.xml

but the problem is an xml format and i can not find on linux, a subtitle editor that supports this format
so i use wine to operate SubtitleEdit in its portable version
with wine and SubtitleEdit you can convert .xml to .srt or .ass ect

[WazaKrash]

Oh, so you can only download the video, separately the subtitle and after with a software you can insert them in the video. good reasoning.

[bluebear]

Thanks everyone.