[rtmpdump] iPlayer flash streams no longer working

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri May 21 11:12:34 EDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:08 +0000, James Laver wrote:
> 
> I actually got seperately sent another patch by an anonymous
> source     
> which I've committed and pushed into the github version.

The version I've put up at git.infradead.org incorporates the old
history from the Subversion tree; I suspect that would be a better way
to proceed. If you want to let me have a SSH public key, I can give you
an account on git.infradead.org.

> It fixes limelight, but I have no idea what's going on with akamai.
> Or much will to investigate, to be honest.

I've been looking at this, using the real flash player.
When I deliberately break routing to the limelight servers, I seem to
get the same error as get_iplayer gets...

    00000BC1  03 00 00 00 00 00 86 14  00 00 00 00 02 00 06 5f ........ ......._
    00000BD1  65 72 72 6f 72 00 3f f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 05 03 error.?. ........
    00000BE1  00 05 6c 65 76 65 6c 02  00 05 65 72 72 6f 72 00 ..level. ..error.
    00000BF1  04 63 6f 64 65 02 00 1e  4e 65 74 43 6f 6e 6e 65 .code... NetConne
    00000C01  63 74 69 6f 6e 2e 43 6f  6e 6e 65 63 74 2e 52 65 ction.Co nnect.Re
    00000C11  6a 65 63 74 65 64 00 0b  64 65 73 63 72 69 70 74 jected.. descript
    00000C21  69 6f 6e 02 00 29 5b 20  41 63 63 65 73 73 4d 61 ion..)[  AccessMa
    00000C31  6e 61 67 65 72 2e 52 65  6a 65 63 74 20 5d 20 3a nager.Re ject ] :
    00000C41  20 41 63 63 65 73 73 20  64 65 6e 69 c3 65 64 21  Access  deni.ed!
    00000C51  00 00 09                                         ...
    00000C54  03 00 00 00 00 00 12 14  00 00 00 00 02 00 05 63 ........ .......c
    00000C64  6c 6f 73 65 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 05       lose.... ......

Or could that be a block based on IP address because there have been a
few failed attempts by get_iplayer?

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dwmw2




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