General Guide for Open Sourced Videos (OSINT)

[GreekUser]

Hello everyone! New member here. I have been learning the past months a variety of Open Source Intelligence Techniques and now wish to start with Videos found on publicly available sources. I am a bit overwhelmed with the information shared on this forum and on other websites and would like to start learning some basics but I do not know where to start from. Does anyone know a good way to start learning on Video Streaming Downloading?

Thank you.

[lomero]

read all thread on this forum.
is enough to start

[[ss]vegeta]

and now wish to start with Videos found on publicly available sources.

Like, which ones?
Downloading is usually done with yt-dlp. A lot of times the video and audio are separate streams and yt-dlp needs the help of ffmpeg for merging them.
Publicly available sources are not always DRM protected so you just need to

yt-dlp "link"

You also need to use the network tab, of the developer tools of the browser. Or use The Stream Detector add-on.
Here, you will usually find m3u8 files or mpd, which are files that "organize" the downloading. So sometimes, instead of

yt-dlp "link"

you need to find the m3u8 or mpd link so

yt-dlp "link to m3u8"

or

yt-dlp "link to mpd"

Sometimes you might get 403 errors and they can often be resolved with

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser Chrome "link"

Show us the sites you want to download from.

There are other tools you can use for downloading, like Streamlink, Video Download Helper add-on, IDM...

[GreekUser]

[QUOTE='[ss]vegeta;2662758']

and now wish to start with Videos found on publicly available sources.

Hi! The tools you posted seem very useful and quite easy to use. However, wouldn't it better for me to start reading about how videos are stored online and the streaming methods behind them? For instance you mentioned mpd and m3u8. Is there a guide to explain all kinds of terminology and streaming methods (protocols for example) that I need to know before using any tools?

- Thanks

[[ss]vegeta]

However, wouldn't it better for me to start reading about how videos are stored online and the streaming methods behind them?

Depends. I never did and here I am.
I, and many others, can get almost any video. From the 2 years or so that I am active in this "field", with like, I don't know, over 200 different sites... there were barely 1 or 2 that I couldn't figure out.

Anyway, if you want official documentation etc, just google.