How to download flash video RTMP/RTMPE streams using free software

[Underlord]

Hi, I subscribe to a couple of streaming movie sites, but sometimes it is more convenient for me to download a movie to my laptop and watch it later, for example when I am on the road and the hotel I am at either has no free wi-fi, or no wi-fi at all. After doing a lot of Googling I tried the trial version of Replay Capture Suite. The trial version limits you to recrording just 2 minutes of a stream, but it worked perfectly on the test movie I chose. So I bought the full product, $79. HOWEVER, the full version refuses to record the stream, (of that same movie) or any other stream from that site (and a number of other pay video sites), as it generates a pop-up that says that it might be infringing copyright, and so refuses to record. It goes on to say that the only way to 'legally' record the movie is to use another product in the suite, a screen recorder, that produces much lower resolution copies, full of stop/starts and stuttering throughout.

I also tried two freeware products, Tubedigger and StreamTransport, but they require you to enter the URL of the movie site in their own GUI, and when I log in to my subscription sites, and try to select the movie to watch, it fails, with a 'Script error on page' (Expected identifier, string or number) dialog in both products, the embedded flash player never appears (just a blank space, with 'You need Adobe Flash installed' above it). Logging in via any browser (IE, FF, Chrome) does not produce any script errors, and the embedded flash player appears no problem.

I then downloaded the RTMPExplorer package, and URLSnooper. URLSnooper reported a *.swf file URL whenever I opened a movie to watch, and an rtmpe file url. The files were of the form:

h t t p://abcde4567.somesite.com/member/ninja/player/4feb3b5808bd54feb3b5808c0e_4feb3b5808bd5.swf

and

rtmpe://somesite.com/moviegenre

I opened RTMPExplorer, closed rtmpsvr and opened rtmpsuck, then pasted the *.swf url into RTMPExplorer and prayed. No luck, nothing happened.


Anyone any ideas what to try next?

Underlord

Anyone any advice?

Underlord

[ahm2480]

Their site doesn't use RTMP streaming, they are using Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming!
You have to use AdobeHDS's PHP script!

tq very much.. now i already success download using some script..

[Seeker47]

Their site doesn't use RTMP streaming, they are using Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming!
You have to use AdobeHDS's PHP script!

And where do we obtain this ?

[Bahman]

And where do we obtain this ?

https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts

Hi, I subscribe to a couple of streaming movie sites, but sometimes it is more convenient for me to download a movie to my laptop and watch it later, for example when I am on the road and the hotel I am at either has no free wi-fi, or no wi-fi at all. After doing a lot of Googling I tried the trial version of Replay Capture Suite. The trial version limits you to recrording just 2 minutes of a stream, but it worked perfectly on the test movie I chose. So I bought the full product, $79. HOWEVER, the full version refuses to record the stream, (of that same movie) or any other stream from that site (and a number of other pay video sites), as it generates a pop-up that says that it might be infringing copyright, and so refuses to record. It goes on to say that the only way to 'legally' record the movie is to use another product in the suite, a screen recorder, that produces much lower resolution copies, full of stop/starts and stuttering throughout.

I also tried two freeware products, Tubedigger and StreamTransport, but they require you to enter the URL of the movie site in their own GUI, and when I log in to my subscription sites, and try to select the movie to watch, it fails, with a 'Script error on page' (Expected identifier, string or number) dialog in both products, the embedded flash player never appears (just a blank space, with 'You need Adobe Flash installed' above it). Logging in via any browser (IE, FF, Chrome) does not produce any script errors, and the embedded flash player appears no problem.

I then downloaded the RTMPExplorer package, and URLSnooper. URLSnooper reported a *.swf file URL whenever I opened a movie to watch, and an rtmpe file url. The files were of the form:

h t t p://abcde4567.somesite.com/member/ninja/player/4feb3b5808bd54feb3b5808c0e_4feb3b5808bd5.swf

and

rtmpe://somesite.com/moviegenre

I opened RTMPExplorer, closed rtmpsvr and opened rtmpsuck, then pasted the *.swf url into RTMPExplorer and prayed. No luck, nothing happened.


Anyone any ideas what to try next?

Underlord

Anyone any advice?

Underlord

PM me your login details and site name (if you are insist on dl'ing those vids)!

[karthikeyan]

Bahman,

I'm trying to download streaming video from

http://zonytvcom.info/suntv.htm

using rtmpdump but i'm getting an error.

rtmpdump -v  -r "rtmpe://mahi.zapto.org:1934/rtplive" -a "rtplive/" -f  "WIN 11,3,300,257" -W "http://zonytvcom.info/you/player.swf" -p  "http://www.zonytvcom.info/suntv.htm" -y "sun.stream" -o sun.stream.flv

I checked this streaming video works in firefox, but not in IE. The SWF URL throws error in RTMPDUMP

(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
ERROR: RTMP_HashSWF: couldn't contact swfurl http://zonytvcom.info/you/player.swf (HTTP error 302)
Connecting ...
WARNING: Trying different position for server digest!
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header

[Satmaster]

Please can someone help me? I have been trying to access NRJ Dance on several sites and i cannot see it. I get an error message" blocked by authorization adaptor". Can some please explain how i can go around this? I have been trying to access NRJ Dance on myiplayer.com, Please some help, is greatly appreciated.

[Seeker47]

Please can someone help me? I have been trying to access NRJ Dance on several sites and i cannot see it. I get an error message" blocked by authorization adaptor". Can some please explain how i can go around this? I have been trying to access NRJ Dance on myiplayer.com, Please some help, is greatly appreciated.

Got your PM on this also, but a public forum should be your best bet for this. I'm afraid I've never heard of NRJ Dance or that website, and don't know what this refers to. Are we talking about some particular software here ? Site-embedded software ? What browser ? There must be others here who know a lot more about this.

[sbl03]

Hi, I'm trying to download this video: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-21-2002/kevin-james

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://viacomccstrmfs.fplive.net:1935/viacomccstrm" -a "viacomccstrm" -W "http://media.mtvnservices.com/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.1.12.1.swf" -p "http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-21-2002/kevin-james" -y "mp4:gsp.comedystor/com/dailyshow/TDS/season_07/episode_064/ds_07064_06_gst_640x480_1600_m30.mp4" -o ds_07064_06_gst_640x480_1600_m30.mp4

Using rtmpdump 2.4, I've tried virtually every single combination of inputs I could find, but I keep getting this error:

RTMPDump 2.4 git-6230845 2011-9-25 
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL 
Connecting ... 
WARNING: HandShake: Type mismatch: client sent 6, server answered 9 
INFO: Connected... 
ERROR: rtmp server sent error 
ERROR: rtmp server requested close

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: Do I /have/ to have v2.5? Is it just not possible with v2.4?

[Bahman]

^Use this script, if didn't help, contact me via pm!

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://4.27.29.126:1935/viacomccstrm" -a "viacomccstrm" -W "http://media.mtvnservices.com/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.1.12.1.swf" -p "http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-21-2002/kevin-james" -y "mp4:gsp.comedystor/com/dailyshow/TDS/season_07/episode_064/ds_07064_06_gst_640x480_1600_m30.mp4" -o ds_07064_06_gst_640x480_1600_m30.mp4

Bahman,

I'm trying to download streaming video from

http://zonytvcom.info/suntv.htm

using rtmpdump but i'm getting an error.

rtmpdump -v  -r "rtmpe://mahi.zapto.org:1934/rtplive" -a "rtplive/" -f   "WIN 11,3,300,257" -W "http://zonytvcom.info/you/player.swf" -p   "http://www.zonytvcom.info/suntv.htm" -y "sun.stream" -o sun.stream.flv

I checked this streaming video works in firefox, but not in IE. The SWF URL throws error in RTMPDUMP

Solution: SecureToken!

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://mahi.zapto.org:1934/rtplive" -a "rtplive/"  -f  "WIN 11,3,300,257" -W "http://zonytvcom.info/you/player.swf" -p   "http://www.zonytvcom.info/suntv.htm" -T "#ed%%h*ibuntu*0#w@1" --live -y "sun.stream" -o sun.stream.flv

RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-03-08 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
WARNING: Trying different position for server digest!
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   audiochannels         0.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       0.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          .mp3
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   width                 176.00
INFO:   height                120.00
INFO:   frameWidth            176.00
INFO:   frameHeight           120.00
INFO:   displayWidth          176.00
INFO:   displayHeight         120.00
INFO:   framerate             29.97
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   timescale             0.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype
INFO:   type                  audio
INFO:   timescale             0.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype
INFO:   type                  video
INFO:   profile-level-id      42c01e
INFO:   sprop-parameter-sets  Z0LAHtkCxH5cBEABRdjATEtAI8WLkgA=,aMuMsg==
INFO:   description           {H264CodecConfigInfo: profile: "Baseline", level:
3.0, frameSize: 176x120, displaySize: 176x120, PAR: 1:1, crop: l:0 r:0 t:0 b:4,
frameRate: 29.97}
INFO: rtpsessioninfo:
INFO:   connectiondata        IN IP4 178.32.53.15
INFO:   name                  WowzaMediaServerPro MPEG-TS
INFO:   origin                - -1172831659 -1172831659 IN IP4 127.0.0.1
INFO:   timing                0 0
INFO:   protocolversion       0
INFO: attributes:
INFO:   range                 npt=now-
42.402 kB / 0.42 sec

[gryphus]

Hi, I've tried everything on the tutorial of the first page and cannot download the video.

The "standard" url to the video (player) is this one:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1173939812001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAFDJ-STk~,O_UTJPLxsFAuKTLYR42vmNQg-lP9p4nb&bctid=1767129324001

Using the sniffer URL Snooper I can get the url of the video itself (a url ending on a .mp4 file), but when I try to download it, the rtmpdump fails prompting an error message that the video cannot be downloaded.

I then tried orbyt downloader. The grab++ gets the url of the video too, but when I try to download it stays on "connecting" for some minutes, then prompts a failed download.

Any idea on how I could download the video?
After doing some research I've seen that Brightcove uses some kind of encryption called "TTL" which gives a token expiration time to the streamings. Even if I try downloading when the video is playing the download fails.

Could anyone help me with this on how to download the video?

Thanks.

[Bahman]

^ Use RTMPExplorer or RTMPDumpHelper!

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp151415.edgefcs.net:1935/ondemand" -a "ondemand?videoId=176
7129324001&lineUpId=&pubId=86746483001&playerId=1173939812001&affiliateId=" -f "
WIN 11,3,300,265" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us20120802.1234/federat
edVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf" -p "http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/b
cpid1173939812001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAFDJ-STk~,O_UTJPLxsFAuKTLYR42vmNQg-lP9p4nb&bctid
=1767129324001" -y "mp4:videos/78527749001/78527749001_1767137192001_20120802-15
5973-ReyMO-1-22.mp4?videoId=1767129324001&lineUpId=&pubId=86746483001&playerId=1
173939812001&affiliateId=" -o 78527749001_1767137192001_20120802-155973-ReyMO-1-
22.flv

RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-03-08 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Closing connection... done!

Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration                114.89
INFO:   moovPosition            48.00
INFO:   width                   480.00
INFO:   height                  268.00
INFO:   videocodecid            avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid            mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile              66.00
INFO:   avclevel                21.00
INFO:   aacaot                  2.00
INFO:   videoframerate          30.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate         44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels           2.00
INFO: tags:
INFO:   ©too                   Lavf53.24.0
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                  3445.00
INFO:   timescale               30.00
INFO:   language                und
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype              avc1
INFO:   length                  5066752.00
INFO:   timescale               44100.00
INFO:   language                und
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype              mp4a
131.744 kB / 2.67 sec (2.3%)

[Seeker47]

^ Use RTMPExplorer or RTMPDumpHelper!

I seem to recall your saying that Brightcove was one of the easier ones . . . ?
Coojah / Blader ? (And have you gotten around to trying their successor program yet ?)

[Bahman]

I didn't notice that stream isn't rtmpe! Because it's rtmp, you can rip video with Coojah+Blader, IDM and many more!

Yes, I said BrightCove's rtmp streams are the easier ones! but rtmpe ones, not! because, as gryphus said, "Brightcove uses some kind of encryption called "TTL" which gives a token expiration time to the streaming."

anyhow, It's not token, It's Auth string!

[gryphus]

Thanks for the help mate!

[Washington]

Hi !

http://rtc.be/reportages/262-general/1450398-jo-charline-van-snick-medaille-de-bronze

I'm trying to download that little 2:15 vid but all the sofwares I use fail, including RTMPdump and all its GUIs.

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://media.rtc.be/vod" -a "vod" -f "WIN 11,3,300,270" -W "http://rtc.be/player-rtc.swf" -p "http://rtc.be/reportages/262-general/1450398-jo-charline-van-snick-medaille-de-bronze" -y "mp4:2012072851-test.mp4" -o mp4_2012072851-test.flv

What must I change to succeed ? Does someone know how else to get that vid ?
Thanks

[Bahman]

Would need SecureToken!

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://media.rtc.be/vod" -a "vod" -W "http://rtc.be/player-rtc.swf" -T "o%p#i7Su@a" -y "mp4:2012072851-test.mp4" -o mp4_2012072851-test.flv

RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-03-08 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
WARNING: Trying different position for server digest!
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   timescale             48000.00
INFO:   length                6522636.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
INFO:   timescale             1001.00
INFO:   length                135989.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       48000.00
INFO:   videoframerate        12.51
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   avcprofile            66.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   width                 512.00
INFO:   height                288.00
INFO:   frameWidth            512.00
INFO:   frameHeight           288.00
INFO:   displayWidth          512.00
INFO:   displayHeight         288.00
INFO:   framerate             25.00
INFO:   moovposition          36.00
INFO:   duration              135.89
54.362 kB / 0.00 sec (0.0%)

Good Luck!

[Washington]

Thank you Bahman for your good job! But it didn't work on my computer maybe because the secureToken has changed. How can I get it from my computer ?

[valp]

Hello there, friends.
I've been trying to download the videos from this site
http://canalbrasil.globo.com/programas/larica-total/videos/index.html

It's not a rtmp stream, but no program will download these, it seems. It's just a tv-webseries, but
HiDownload, DownloadHelper and Rplay Media Catcher won't get these files.

[Bahman]

^
I used IDM and worked fine!

Thank you Bahman for your good job! But it didn't work on my computer maybe because the secureToken has changed. How can I get it from my computer ?

SecureToken is same yet! Just I can guess that you are running rtmpdump from a batch file! you need to put double %!
I mean, your command will be:

rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://media.rtc.be/vod" -a "vod" -W "http://rtc.be/player-rtc.swf" -T "o%%p#i7Su@a" -y "mp4:2012072851-test.mp4" -o mp4_2012072851-test.flv

[Washington]

@ Bahman
You're the best ! It's working now I've put double %
The download worked fine. For the token, you used IDM, I'll take a look on it. Thank you very much.
My praise to rtmpdump developpers. And thanks to all people who help newbies in this forum.

[Washington]

^
I used IDM and worked fine!

Here I'm again. I'm trying to find that token with IDM as you said. Only a html file is downloaded.
Sorry but you didn't explain how to grab that f... SecureToken (o%%p#i7Su@a).

[Bahman]

oh boy, using IDM was a reply to another user (valp)! not you!
For finding Token, You should decompile swf file with flasm and then search for token in decompiled swf file!

[supertramp]

Hello Bahman!

I hope you can help me, I'm trying to download this following video:
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/zannas-shoe-fit-guide/

Nothing seems to work, it doesn't even load!

[Bahman]

Simple HTTP stream: http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/videos/view/43/5065/home.ctv?v=4.9.31

[Washington]

oh boy, using IDM was a reply to another user (valp)! not you!
For finding Token, You should decompile swf file with flasm and then search for token in decompiled swf file!

Thank you man ! I've bothered you enough this time. See you.

[Bahman]

No problem Man!

[supertramp]

Awesome, Bahman! Many thanks! The URL gave me a FLV link which led me straight to the video!

[blank_jack]

Hello,

I was trying to download some videos from the Olympic games, using RTMP explorer, but no luck. I initially tried StreamSupport. It detects the stream, but only downloads about 1 MB of the video and then stops, never resumes..

As I do not have much knowledge with the rtmpdump, I used the explorer, the URL I was trying to download is this:

http://www.dolce-sport.ro/sporturi/jocurile-olimpice/jocurile-olimpice/gimnastele-au-r...port-ro-14466/

When I paste the URL in the explorer in the cmd prompt I see this:

http://screencast.com/t/j0mW82XtY

If I try about 10 times hitting the back and go button, it eventually starts to download the video, but it reaches a certain % and then stops, never resumes..

I am really totally lost on this, any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you in advance!

[Bahman]

^ What about these script?

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmpe://big01.mediadirect.ro:1935/recdolcesport" -a "recdolcesport?id=69353285"  -W "http://static1.mediadirect.ro/player-preload/swf/dolce_sport_293/player.swf" -C O:1 -C O:0 -y "2012/08/02/mp4:fetele_la_sarituri-19_56_25.mp4" -o mp4_fetele_la_sarituri-19_56_25.flv

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmpe://big01.mediadirect.ro:1935/recdolcesport" -a  "recdolcesport?id=69353285" -W  "http://static1.mediadirect.ro/player-preload/swf/dolce_sport_293/player.swf" -C O:1 -C O:0 -y "2012/08/02/mp4:fetele_la_sol-19_35_27.mp4" -o  mp4_fetele_la_sol-19_35_27.flv

[blank_jack]

^ What about these script?

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmpe://big01.mediadirect.ro:1935/recdolcesport" -a "recdolcesport?id=69353285"  -W "http://static1.mediadirect.ro/player-preload/swf/dolce_sport_293/player.swf" -C O:1 -C O:0 -y "2012/08/02/mp4:fetele_la_sarituri-19_56_25.mp4" -o mp4_fetele_la_sarituri-19_56_25.flv

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmpe://big01.mediadirect.ro:1935/recdolcesport" -a  "recdolcesport?id=69353285" -W  "http://static1.mediadirect.ro/player-preload/swf/dolce_sport_293/player.swf" -C O:1 -C O:0 -y "2012/08/02/mp4:fetele_la_sol-19_35_27.mp4" -o  mp4_fetele_la_sol-19_35_27.flv

You are so AWESOME!!

How did you form these commands? I have a couple more videos to download, and also want to learn to do them myself?

Thanks a lot!!!


P.S. Did they work for you? I got excited too early.. I ran them and the download was interrupted at about 6% every time:

C:\Users\Genadi>C:\Users\User\Downloads\rtmpexplorer\rtmpdump -v -r "rtmpe://b
ig01.mediadirect.ro:1935/recdolcesport" -a "recdolcesport?id=69353285" -f "WIN 1
1,3,300,265" -W "http://static1.mediadirect.ro/player-preload/swf/dolce_sport_29
3/player.swf" -p "http://www.dolce-sport.ro/sporturi/jocurile-olimpice/jocurile-
olimpice/gimnastele-au-ratat-podiumul-la-individual-compus-izba-a-a-terminat-pe-
5-iordache-pe-9-video-pe-dolcesport-ro-14466/" -C O:1 -C O:0 -y "2012/08/02/mp4:
fetele_la_sarituri-19_56_25.mp4" -o mp4_fetele_la_sarituri-19_56_25.flv
RTMPDump 2.4 git-6230845 2011-9-25
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
WARNING: Trying different position for server digest!
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO: timescale 90000.00
INFO: length 106009200.00
INFO: language eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO: sampletype mp4a
INFO: timescale 90000.00
INFO: length 106005420.00
INFO: language eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO: sampletype avc1
INFO: audiochannels 2.00
INFO: audiosamplerate 90000.00
INFO: videoframerate 0.13
INFO: aacaot 2.00
INFO: avclevel 31.00
INFO: avcprofile 66.00
INFO: audiocodecid mp4a
INFO: videocodecid avc1
INFO: width 1024.00
INFO: height 576.00
INFO: frameWidth 1024.00
INFO: frameHeight 576.00
INFO: displayWidth 1024.00
INFO: displayHeight 576.00
INFO: framerate 25.00
INFO: moovposition 272979492.00
INFO: duration 1177.88
14903.002 kB / 72.16 sec (6.1%)
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
14996.170 kB / 72.59 sec (6.1%)
Download may be incomplete (downloaded about 6.10%), try resuming

Thanks!