First post and question

[Nigel Taylor]

On 10/24/11 17:10, Paul Oldham wrote:
> On 24/10/11 11:32, Nigel Taylor wrote:
> 
>> On 10/24/11 10:54, Alastair wrote:
>>
>>> My present question is slightly OT.  Is there an equivalent of
>>> get_iplayer for ITV
>>> downloads?
>>
>> Slightly OT, it is possible to download ITV channels, also Channel 5,
>> like so
>>
>> $ get_flash_videos -r high
>> http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=283365
>> Downloading http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=283365
>> Using method 'itv' for http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=283365
> 
> Hmmm ... just tried that on my Ubuntu Lucid amd64 PC and I get:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> $ get_flash_videos -r high
> http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=282530
> Downloading http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=282530
> Using method 'itv' for http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=282530
> Error: Unable to find <Video> in XML at /usr/bin/get_flash_videos line
> 2743.
> 
> Couldn't extract Flash movie URL. This site may need specific support
> adding,
> or fixing.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Curiously '/usr/bin/get_flash_videos --update' confirms I am on the
> latest version. Oh well, nothing much I want to watch on ITV anyway ;-)
> 
Hi,

I tried on my Debian system and that fails also, but this works on OpenBSD, 
likely one of perl CPAN modules is missing,

$ get_flash_videos -r high http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=282530
Downloading http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=282530
Using method 'itv' for http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=282530
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              1973.20
INFO:   moovPosition          32.00
INFO:   width                 704.00
INFO:   height                396.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              31.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       24000.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                49328000.00
INFO:   timescale             25000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                47356928.00
INFO:   timescale             24000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
1-9310-0036-001_THE-ONLY-WAY-IS-ESSEX-(SERIES-3)_TX191011...200_16X9.mp4: 0% (2804.56 / 311617.78 KiB)^C