Capturing a video stream from Yahoo Music

[deepblue-9]

I'm trying to capture this stream (without re-enconding): https://www.yahoo.com/music/livenation/event/metric

Internet Download Manager can detect only small TS files. Any idea how to get the whole thing at the maximum bitrate available?

[mulvya]

Either ffmpeg directly:

ffmpeg -i "https://ci-86964868b0-783c929a.http.atlas.cdn.yimg.com/live/dax-global/external/livenation2p_dax/livenation2p_dax_856.m3u8?a=livenation&ib=sapi&ns=c+i+ci+cii+ps+flags+ru&vid=a5dec807-db4d-346e-96c1-a73d02852d43&ps=51vrsblbedm2p" -c copy concert.ts

(press Ctrl+C to stop recording)


Or download the TS chunks via IDM and then concat using ffmpeg.

In the example above, the 856 kbps stream is being ripped. I think the 1080p stream is 6128 kbps.

[Alex_ander]

Or download the TS chunks via IDM and then concat using ffmpeg.

Looks like this option is the only chance. It works like real-time webcast here, and the server generates multiple temporary .m3u8 files, each one with links to just ten 8-second .ts fragments. Unlike with on-demand videos, it is impossible to mass-download all the fragments e.g. by manually giving the full set of links to the d/l manager: while sequentially numbered, the links to .ts files (and their pass-codes) also include random digits here. So if IDM is capable of detecting and downloading all of the .ts parts while the video plays (with the desired bitrate), it would be possible to join them later.

[mulvya]

ffmpeg knows to refresh the playlist so you aren't limited to the 10 segments.

Thing is, based on location and time of day, you can luck into being served an unprotected playlist and TS files, so no tokens or passcodes. You just can't predict when you'll be served such a stream.

[deepblue-9]

Thanks for replies. I finally managed to get a 720p rip with this command:

livestreamer "hls://https://yahoohls-live.secure.footprint.net/yahoohls/live/livenation2p/appleman_4628.m3u8" best -o "D:\Temp\OutputStream.mp4"