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By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:03:16 +0000

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your response. Interestingly I did manage to retrieve the file using the above command, but only after 8 or 9 dropouts that required using the –resume parameter of flvstreamer.
There is still a ways to go to perfection though as the file when played back with VLC player shows washed out colour and a verticle green strip in the centre.
I am using flvstreamer with ABC iview and it does not have that problem, driven from a similar perl script called iview_fetcher that i found on whirlpool.

Im not sure that I am competent enough to understand the details of wireshark rtmp packet traces but there is nothing like a challenge to build new skills.

cheers

By: Andrew Harvey

Andrew Harvey — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:58:51 +0000

Randy,

Yes that command doesn’t seem to work anymore. If you run flvstreamer –help you can see all the possible arguments. If you then (well at least this is how I did it) inspect the RTMP packets (not sure what they are called hopefully I can study networks next session) sent when you view the video through their standard flash interface, you can see what they use for these values.

From some trial and error it seems that you need to have the –swfUrl set, so just add the argument –swfUrl ‘http://player.sbs.com.au/web/flash/standalone_video_player_application.swf’.

Also my script uses the thumbnail url to determine the file url, this was when I didn’t know about the url’s like this http://player.sbs.com.au/video/smil/index/standalone/73712. Really I should get the file name from there because as it turns out all my file names for videos over RTMP are wrong. Will fix this eventually. In the meantime you will can use the /video/smil/index pages.

So it should work if you use this,
./flvstreamer -r 'rtmp://specialbsc.fcod.llnwd.net/a1768/o21/s/SRS_FE_Global_Village_Ep_19_44_73712_1000K?ru=24&e=1251880200&h=0ce8076ba80d82988730202977bcd82b' --swfUrl 'http://player.sbs.com.au/web/flash/standalone_video_player_application.swf' -o globalvillage.flv

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:58:25 +0000

Hi Andrew,
Thank you for your briliant work!

I have just playing with your script and works fine but Im having no success driving it to completion with flvstreamer. I get Netstream.failed using
.\flvstreamer -r rtmp://specialbsc.fcod.llnwd.net/a1768/o21/s/SRS_FE_Global_Village_Ep_19_44_73712_1000K.flv > globalvillage.flv

Are there some other flvstreamer parmeters other than -r required?

Can you please help or perhaps modify your script to output the flvstreamer command in an executable format.

many thanks in advance …randy

By: Andrew Harvey

Andrew Harvey — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:53:39 +0000

Thanks, that’s a much better method.

By: Alexandr Ciornii

Alexandr Ciornii — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:56:40 +0000

The long sequence of if’s (if ($code1char eq “DOC”) {) can be replaced with a hash.