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

[Viper2005]

sysanin
Thank you so much! I finally did get that to work after struggling to install youtube-dl on my mac. The video works perfectly!
For future reference, the '4551' in the command line, is that the first 4 digits of the bandwidth?

[sysanin]

Do you know if there is some kind of code that I can add to your command to make it seem like I am in Canada?

One other thing. That is useful how you combined the video and audio ...

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl

1. See "Network Options"

 --proxy "address: port"

2. See "FORMAT SELECTION"

Viper2005 Yes

[jimdagys]

sysanin,

--proxy "address: port"

I went to
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl
"Network options"
and found this:
--proxy URL
I'm a little confused. Can you give me an exact URL (even if it doesn't work) so I can see what the entire youtube-dl code should look like (as an example) with the proxy included in the code to download the show?
Then, where do I get the URL to put in the youtube-dl code to make it seem like I am in Canada? I have a very difficult time following only the algebraic formula (as found in github.com). It is easier for me to have an example (in addition to the algebraic formula), then I can modify the example as needed.

[Alex_ander]

Here's an example of a site with a regularly updated free proxy list (its 'canadian' page). You'll need to test the selected one at playback (for speed and ability to show you being in Canada) before downloading. You can use e. g. Firefox FoxyProxy plugin for quick switching between proxy and no-proxy while testing.
http://spys.ru/free-proxy-list/CA/

youtube-dl --proxy "https://192.99.128.170:8080" URL

(Just an example, I can't test it currently.)

[sysanin]

youtube-dl --proxy "192.99.128.170: 8080" -F "http://watch.cbc.ca/canadas-smartest-person/season-3/episode-6/38e815a-00b6a45ee38"

But I use Hide All IP
P.S. For Internet I pay three times more

[Alex_ander]

I played a little with it yesterday. Used a faster proxy, but the option with the manual quality selection (the process simply stops on the list above without it) refused to work in the place after --proxy option: it was taken for 'incorrect url' for video. So I had to put it after the url and then got an error message with a recommendation to use --default-search option. When I placed the selected audio+video after it, it asked for ffmpeg and only started downloading after I put youtube-dl into ffmpeg folder. If I also used -F option, then it downloaded 1080+6-channel audio (probably ignoring the manual setting); without -F it downloaded 720p with 2-channel audio. In both cases (despite rather a good picture) it skipped frames several times + was out of sync in the 1080 case. So, very strange experience with 'proxy+quality selection' .

P.S. Looking at the program's options list, I should have used -f (+arguments) instead of -F, then it was my own fault.

[jimdagys]

Sysanin, Alex_ander,
Thank you very much. For seven years I have wanted to know how to do this (ungeoblock the command line) and no one has ever given me an answer that I could follow. With your info, I was able to download the video.
I used this code:

youtube-dl --proxy "198.50.195.41: 80" -f 1294+AACLC-2_0-English "http://watch.cbc.ca/canadas-smartest-person/season-3/episode-6/38e815a-00b6a45ee38"

I got the proxy (198.50.195.41: 80) from the above proxy website, http://spys.ru/free-proxy-list/CA/.
Notice (from the F command that gives available file sizes), I chose 1294, which gives a stated resolution of 640x360 and a total file size of 378 MB for a 44min 9sec video. The video downloaded in the youtube-dl folder ( see screenshot at end of this post). Notice that there is other software in the youtube-dl folder that I think is necessary. The exact software I used is here:
http://files.videohelp.com/u/61125/youtube-dl.zip

One thing I don't understand. If you look at the below command output, just before the video is downloaded and the audio starts to download, there is a warning message:

'Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 237921684, c
urrent: 237921684; changing to 237921685. This may result in incorrect timestamp
s in the output file.

What does that mean and is there a way to eliminate the warning message?
Another question I have. I played the video in vlc and the audio sync seemed good throughout the entire video. However, I played the video on another standalone media player and the audio sync seemed to get off gradually to about half second near the end of the video.
Why is this?

frame=79026 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 322657kB time=00:43:56.80 bitrate=1002.4kbits/
frame=79059 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 322800kB time=00:43:57.90 bitrate=1002.5kbits/
frame=79103 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 322947kB time=00:43:59.37 bitrate=1002.4kbits/
frame=79114 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 322993kB time=00:43:59.73 bitrate=1002.4kbits/
[mp4 @ 03416020] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 237921684, c
urrent: 237921684; changing to 237921685. This may result in incorrect timestamp
s in the output file.
frame=79238 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323144kB time=00:44:03.87 bitrate=1001.3kbits/
frame=79253 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323255kB time=00:44:04.37 bitrate=1001.4kbits/
frame=79282 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323412kB time=00:44:05.34 bitrate=1001.5kbits/
frame=79315 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323553kB time=00:44:06.44 bitrate=1001.5kbits/
frame=79360 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323702kB time=00:44:07.94 bitrate=1001.4kbits/
frame=79380 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323768kB time=00:44:08.61 bitrate=1001.4kbits/
frame=79408 fps= 56 q=-1.0 size= 323886kB time=00:44:09.54 bitrate=1001.4kbits/
frame=79420 fps= 56 q=-1.0 Lsize= 324257kB time=00:44:09.94 bitrate=1002.4kbits
/s
video:323623kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxin
g overhead: 0.195828%
[ffmpeg] Downloaded 332039074 bytes
[download] 100% of 316.66MiB
[download] Destination: Episode 6-38e815a-00b6a45ee38.fAACLC-2_0-English.mp4
ffmpeg version N-67673-g933eca9 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on Nov 14 2014 22:01:58 with gcc 4.9.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
le-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --
enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-lib
modplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrw
b --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinge
r --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --en
able-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis
--enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-
libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
libavutil 54. 11.100 / 54. 11.100
libavcodec 56. 12.100 / 56. 12.100
libavformat 56. 12.103 / 56. 12.103
libavdevice 56. 3.100 / 56. 3.100
libavfilter 5. 2.103 / 5. 2.103
libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'http://v.watch.cbc.ca/p//38e815a-00b6a45ee38//CBC
_CANADAS_SMARTEST_PERSON_SEASON_03_S03E06-v2-11405338/segments/CBC_CANADAS_SMART
EST_PERSON_SEASON_03_S03E06_a7/prog_index.m3u8':
Duration: 00:44:09.95, start: 9.985467, bitrate: 0 kb/s
Program 0
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (LC), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 196 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:Episode 6-38e815a-00b6a45ee38.fAACLC-2_0-English.mp4.pa
rt':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf56.12.103
Stream #0:0: Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, stereo, 196 kb/s

Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
size= 61801kB time=00:44:09.95 bitrate= 191.0kbits/s
video:0kB audio:61353kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing
overhead: 0.730328%
[ffmpeg] Downloaded 63284014 bytes
[download] 100% of 60.35MiB
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Episode 6-38e815a-00b6a45ee38.mp4"
Deleting original file Episode 6-38e815a-00b6a45ee38.f1294.mp4 (pass -k to keep)

Deleting original file Episode 6-38e815a-00b6a45ee38.fAACLC-2_0-English.mp4 (pas
s -k to keep)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Episode 6

C:\youtube-dl>

[Fathom]

Hi someone can help me to find how to download this stream please.....

http://mediamtvnserv-a.akamaihd.net/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.2.10.16.swf?uri=mgid...iginalRef=None

With Streamtransport I can only see the video but no link to download it

I need the best resolution, because could be some others resolution.

Thank you guys.....

[ceppu36]

Hi someone can help me to find how to download this stream please.....

http://mediamtvnserv-a.akamaihd.net/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.2.10.16.swf?uri=mgid...iginalRef=None

With Streamtransport I can only see the video but no link to download it

I need the best resolution, because could be some others resolution.

Thank you guys.....

Download idm and paste idm this links : http://pastebin.com/HMm3be9j

[aazerty]

Hi ,

( thanks to ceppu36 ) . Not need to use IDM !

Open the link pastebin given , do a choice . Example : "rtmp...768x432_1700_m30.mp4" .
Then write a command's line :
---
livestreamer "rtmp...768x432_1700_m30.mp4" best -o video.mp4
---
Cheers .

[tbbttbbt]

Hi, can someone run this through youtube dl and tell me the 8000kbps link please http://cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/dead-or-alive-trailer/?play=1b0d1bec-a98e-4ba9-ba78-4f5186a35888 Thanks in advance.

[bloodhand]

Hello!

This is the original link for the video: http://protvplus.ro/produs/apropo-tv...decembrie-2016.

I tried the following ffmpeg batch with no success:

ffmpeg -i http://cdn.drm.protv.ro/protvplus.ro/2017/01/12/43c7a0a664d7d0fa805d26a047feda05.ism/43c7a0a664d7d0fa805d26a047feda05.m3u8 -c copy -absf aac_adtstoasc video.mp4

The error I get is:

HTTP ERROR 403 Forbidden
Unable to open key file http://drmapi.protv.ro/keys/get/protvplus.ro/61307737

I guess I have to download the key file and put it into the folder along with ffmpeg.exe, but I have no idea how to do this...

Thanks in advance.

[ponens]

Hello! This is the original link for the video:

http://protvplus.ro/produs/apropo-tv/video/8483-apropo-tv-25-decembrie-2016

I guess I have to download the key file and put it into the folder along with ffmpeg.exe, but I have no idea how to do this...
Thanks in advance.

In order to use the key locally with ffmpeg, you'll need to download the m3u8 file and edit it to reflect that the key is local. Example of already edited m3u8 file for your video: 61307737.zip

Place edited m3u8 file and key file is same directory/path as ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i "1994000.m3u8" -c copy file.ts

[bloodhand]

Thanks for your reply. I already knew the process, but I couldn't get the key file locally with any method. But may I ask you how did you managed to get the key file? When I open the link, it doesn't display anything and cannot download anything. I lost all yesterday afternoon trying to get the key file using m3u8x, atresdownloader, network developer mode in firefox, coojah, open blocked items adblock firefox etc.

LE: What you have sent me doesn't work. All I get is:
Failed to open segment of playlist 0 for all ts file components.
Protocol not on whitelist 'file, crypto'.

What to do next?

LLE: Never mind, I've fixed it adding -protocol_whitelist "file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto" after ffmpeg in the batch. Works like a charm. But, again, how do I get the key file contents? Many thanks.

[ponens]

What browser/OS are you using? I don't get the whitelist error. If you're having trouble downloading the keyfile in the conventional way, you can just copy the response from the browser when the player downloads it. There is another problem with this video though, only slightly less than half of the .ts segments download - even when playing the video in the browser. All segments after 415.ts don't download. I have no idea why the video won't play past half way, even on the website in the browser.

[bloodhand]

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x86 with IE11/Chrome latest/Firefox latest. Yes, I've seen the issue that from 416.ts it doesn't work anymore, but I've also found out that from 564.ts it works again until the end. Regarding the key file, i tried to open link in new tab, pass it through IDM, save page as html, but got no response or whatsoever, all files are 0 bytes. I tried to use developer tools in Chrome and found the link for the key, but there is no response for that. Also used Firefox in the same way, now I get a response, but it is one character different from the one you sent me:
1) Your key file contains:

ù‰Ä×±ÊZEb¦n÷\
]

2) My key file response from Firefox contains:

ùÄ×±ÊZEb¦n÷\
]

This is why I asked you how did you managed to get the key file contents correctly. Maybe I just have to copy the response in another text editor other than Notepad, because it might mess up the unicode characters.

[ponens]

Fiddler returns the correct key. After the key url is shown in the fiddler list, right-click the entry, then select "Inspect in New Window".

Then, in the new window, select "Response" tab, then "HexView".

[bloodhand]

OK. Thanks a lot for the tip. Is it Fiddler standalone or Fiddler extension for Chrome? I've never used it before.

[bloodhand]

I finally got it. I used your tips and then I had to select all bytes and save bytes as and saved as a txt file, then the code was correctly displayed. Thanks.

[max head]

Hi, could you help me to download: http://www.vh1.it/video/david-bowie-the-last-five-years-2/?

[sysanin]

max head

livestreamer "rtmpe://cp5290.edgefcs.net/ondemand/mtviestor/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/MBUS/TACTIC/201701/VIAMTVIPYC0546GDYE9/it_davidbowie_lastfivedays_vh1_full_sito_1280x720_3500_h32.mp4" best -o davidbowie_lastfivedays.flv

[jimdagys]

sysanin,
How did you get (please explain):

rtmpe://cp5290.edgefcs.net/ondemand/mtviestor/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/MBUS/TACTIC/201701/VIAMTVIPYC0546GDYE9/it_davidbowie_lastfivedays_vh1_full_sito_1280x720_3500_h32.mp4

[sysanin]

How did you get (please explain) ...

Look for the file "MediaGenerator"

[robza171]

Some assistance to download these live streams please?

http://m.tudotv.tv/assistir-bbb-17-ao-vivo-gratis-big-brother-brasil-online/

[robza171]

i also need assistance with this live feed please - dunno how to download it:

http://i.l.dstv.com/US03/EVNT2/EVNT2.isml/dash/EVNT2-video=549952-37151955825.dash

Im guessing something along the lines of just downloading it someway like this:

http://i.l.dstv.com/US03/EVNT2/EVNT2.isml/manifest

but im not quite sure how.

[jimdagys]

Hi, could you help me to download: http://www.vh1.it/video/david-bowie-the-last-five-years-2

I want to add some details about how sysanin answered this question.
Sysanin used livestreamer, but the video can also be downloaded with youtube-dl.
I used the 2017.02.04.1 version of youtube-dl and also put rtmpdump.exe in the same folder.
I played the video with Firefox Adblocker Plus and put
mediagenerator
in the search box. See screenshot1
This will yield the following URL:

https://mediautilssvcs-a.akamaihd.net/services/MediaGenerator/mgid%3Aarc%3Avideo%3Avh1.it%3A58d5be9e-fa4b-42d3-89fe-8672c1c20ff5?arcStage=live&accountOverride=esperanto.mtvi.com&billingSection=intl&device=Other&ep=&acceptMethods=fms,hdn1,hds

that when put in the browser will give this webpage with several rtmpe urls (see screenshot2 blue highlight).
Different resolutions are given. I chose 640x360.
Putting this into youtube-dl to get available formats gives this:

youtube-dl -F rtmpe://cp5290.edgefcs.net/ondemand/mtviestor/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/MBUS/TACTIC/201701/VIAMTVIPYC0546GDYE9/it_davidbowie_lastfivedays_vh1_full_sito_640x360_1200_m30.mp4

This gives
rtmpe
for format.
Putting this into youtube-dl gives this (final code to download the video):

youtube-dl -f rtmpe rtmpe://cp5290.edgefcs.net/ondemand/mtviestor/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/MBUS/TACTIC/201701/VIAMTVIPYC0546GDYE9/it_davidbowie_lastfivedays_vh1_full_sito_640x360_1200_m30.mp4

[Starz]

Can someone please help?
rtmpe://cp15588.edgefcs.net/ondemand/mtvnorigin/gsp.egvrenditions/logo_arc/2017/02/01/04/03/49/3972b454ed80469b935ed83bf02feb41/sGp0I5WMq0Fairy_armadillo_3_1280x720_3128.mp4

How do I run it in cmd or download some other way? Please and thank you!

[sysanin]

I do so:



P.S. Shortcuts to run programs made by myself

[thinredline]

Hello.
I'd like to download the video with this address:
skaihd-f.akamaihd.net/i/TheVoice2016/voice20170202.mp4

but it says "access denied".
Any idea how I could do it?
I used a software but I can download it in segments of 10seconds each!!
The video is around 2,2 hours!

[ponens]

Hello.
I'd like to download the video:
http://www.skai.gr/player/TV/?mmid=284950

http://download.skai.gr/TheVoice2016/voice20170202.mp4