Posted: 5/5/2006 7:36 PM
Post subject: Capture Streaming Media
Quote
xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
What is the best way to capture streaming media from a website that plays in an embedded instance of Windows Media Player?
Posted: 5/5/2006 7:38 PM
Post subject: Re: Capture Streaming Media
Quote
Bisqwit
Editor, Active player (297)
Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
xebra wrote:
What is the best way to capture streaming media from a website that plays in an embedded instance of Windows Media Player?
Capture the URL from the page source code (usually something like WMV or ASX), then use "mplayer -dump△○☆ <url>" to play it. Substitute the proper "dump"-option of choice by using the mplayer manual page.
Posted: 5/5/2006 7:59 PM
Quote
xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
What if there is no direct link to the file? For example, it is accessed through a script like stream.scr?StreamID=12345.
Posted: 5/5/2006 8:06 PM
Quote
Bisqwit
Editor, Active player (297)
Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
xebra wrote:
What if there is no direct link to the file? For example, it is accessed through a script like stream.scr?StreamID=12345.
Then you need to hack it to find where it loads the script from. Perhaps with a traffic snooper. Or perhaps the .scr file is a serverside script that returns the ASX file? In that case, you could download it with wget.
Posted: 5/5/2006 9:04 PM
Quote
Grambo
Joined: 11/26/2005
Posts: 16
Location: Storrs, CT
If you use firefox then you could always use download embedded, its an extension that should do just what you want. https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1993&application=firefox It won't get videos from places such as google video or YouTube, but most places it will. If you are trying to get a video from YouTube or a few other places, there are web sites on the internet that will route the file to your computer such as: http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php I think that covers most of the bases.
Posted: 5/5/2006 9:19 PM
Quote
nesrocks
He/Him
Player (247)
Joined: 5/1/2004
Posts: 4096
Location: Rio, Brazil
if you want to get the video from youtube go to temoporary files, located the file (you'll have to rely on filesize since it's got a vague name and no extension), copy it to somewhere else and rename to AVI
aka Nesrocks http://www.youtube.com/user/UoBtExFODA https://nesrocks.com https://twitter.com/bitinkstudios