First post and question

[Nigel Taylor]

On 10/24/11 18:15, Nigel Taylor wrote:
> 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
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Debian squeeze doesn't include libdata-amf-perl, I used the version from
wheezy. get_flash_videos now works for ITV.