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[Marcel Rieux]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

>> ./rtmpdump_x86 -r
>> "rtmp://203.77.184.132/a1863/o6/tp-live/PBS_CP_General_Audience/cosby-full-revised-CHN.mp4"
>> -o outfile.mp4
>>
> Sorry....  That wasn't the movie clip.  That was the PBS video you
> referenced in:
>
> http://video.pbs.org/video/1082087546/

Sorry, I didn't reference anything on this page. It's PBS's site. As
for 203.77.184.132,  it's Limelight Networks Asia Pacific.

>> The problem is that, here, you have the whole path and the name of the
>> file to stream, which you don't have in the case of the CBC, BBC, PBS,
>> etc.
>>
>>
> As I said, it isn't easy or simple.....
>
> In order to learn
> "tp-live/PBS_CP_General_Audience/cosby-full-revised-CHN.mp4"  you have
> to use tcpdump or wireshark to capture the IP packets and then look at
> them to find the information.  The a1863/o6 string is also part of the
> RTMP protocol that you need to determine.  That info is also in the IP
> packets but seems to be the same for all PBS videos.

As you say, it seems pretty complicated. Giving up.