RTMPDump Q+A's

[tvmaster]

rtmpsrv is a bit much at the moment (for me).
Will have a closer look in the next days.

In the meantime - please take a look the attachment and be so kind as to make it playable.

@screensports
Could you please write a bit more about rtmpsrv or tell me where to get more info.
The OP is about Linux/rtmpsrv...or?
So far all I can see is rtmp://0.0.0.0:1935
I read somewhere that now I have to edit the host file??
As said above I will have a better look later. Anyway thanks for your help.

[screensports]

Take a look here for tutorial.
RTMPExplorer is available here.

In the meantime - please take a look the attachment and be so kind as to make it playable.

@screensports
Could you please write a bit more about rtmpsrv or tell me where to get more info.
The OP is about Linux/rtmpsrv...or?
So far all I can see is rtmp://0.0.0.0:1935
I read somewhere that now I have to edit the host file??
As said above I will have a better look later. Anyway thanks for your help.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

@tvmaster

Personally ive never ever gotten rtmpsrv to work under Windows even with editing my host file as all the tuts on the net explain...? Even found this one using google cache search...

rtmpsrv for Windows

Setup:
Firefox
rtmpdump, rtmpsrv
coreutils
grep
sed

Find the Host:
1. Windows Task Manager
right click plugin-container.exe > Create Dump File

2. get host

grep -Pao rtmp.{40} plugin-container.DMP | sort -u

Download:
1. start monitoring

rtmpsrv > rtmpsrv.txt

2. edit hosts file

cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc & sed s/#// hosts > tmp & mv tmp hosts

3. start the video

4. after rtmpsrv captures the parameters kill the processes

taskkill /im plugin-container.exe /im rtmpsrv.exe /f

5. restore hosts file

cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc & sed "s/^/#/" hosts > tmp & mv tmp hosts

6. the command to download the video will be in the text file

rtmpdump -r rtmpe://hulufs.fplive.net -a "hulu/593/50111593?sessionid=0BFAD9DD35D19ED8B6CB274534A8BFE3&token=c3RhcnRfdGltZT0yMDExMDEyNjA3NTEzMCZlbmRfdGltZT0yMDExMDEyNjA3NTQzMCZkaWdlc3Q9NDllOWMwNWQzODlhN2E0M2ZmMTZjNzM4ZGFjMTY4YTY=&mbr=1&hgt=OZU7Pvs7j27-nhteNno7wh2rW2KI7E9RRATmcsvy_NF5xCHAoM7C8u_J91OZBxBR9DnvqD7raxmXD1j6B_Vd8D0KoHAe6m0_yAr8olsIPsaw9xk756zhNlD5YwyJ2Sp_1zr6BoZJszElO98gvx-Fiaas94sNlr65RihN6nJmzBAJKF6_xuXsDvJlBGskVLT5pKYys4g8MS46syG8YG_N81peD_6dR_Y1YdXHPWg6q6fT7Tt8ycDp7ogMw0xHWRwTRQcpP6y_lXKjoQYOXIYIrg==&hgt_ver=331370278" -y mp4:agave50111593_4261809_H264_1000.mp4 -W http://www.hulu.com/player.swf -o output.flv

History:
rtmpdump README

All you need to do is redirect your Flash clients to the machine running this server and it will dump out all the connect / play parameters that the Flash client sent. The simplest way to cause the redirect is by editing /etc/hosts when you know the hostname of the RTMP server, and point it to localhost while running rtmpsrv on your machine. (This approach should work on any OS; on Windows you would edit %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.)

On Linux you can also use iptables to redirect all outbound RTMP traffic. You need to be running as root in order to use the iptables command.

hyc, RTMPdump team

You need customizable filter/firewall software to perform a transparent redirect. I'm not aware of any freeware for Windows that does this.

the problem with using rtmpsrv on windows is that in windows cannot do a transparent redirect like on linux. basically that means that before you can use rtmpsrv you have to tell it the server that you are trying to download from. at first this seems impossible because you are relying on rtmpsrv to get you that information!

the workaround is to pull the server (--host) directly from your RAM. with firefox the process for adobe is plugin-container.exe. so the idea is to create a dump file of that process after the video has loaded, then search through that file and find the server (--host) information. grep is the easiest tool to do that. once you have the (--host), modify the hosts file and boom, rtmpsrv working. the fact is you can actually find all the rtmpdump parameters in the dump file, and you do not even need to use rtmpsrv. i choose to use it because it seems easier to find the host then to sift through and try to figure out all the other rtmpdump parameters.

Notes:
rtmpdump might not work if BitTorrent is running. with Hulu you have 3 minutes to make a connection with rtmpdump after the video has started.

The only other way i can think of is have 2 Windows computers on the same network and run rtmpsrv on one and the other playing the flash stream. Other than that use RTMPExplorer as screensports suggests but be warned it needs Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Then you have Linux of course where rtmpsrv always works...

[nehru]

How should I look for the following address rtmpdump flow

>Removed, use a text file like everyone else.<

ThankYou in advance

[Noprseman]

This is one heck of an item. Do we know which sites are having the most success...

Seeon seems to be a fav.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

This is one heck of an item. Do we know which sites are having the most success...

Seeon seems to be a fav.

Did you read this...?

Tutorial

A nice and easy to follow tutorial by screensports can be downloaded and will show you how to hunt down RTMP streams and use RTMPDump. - Tutorial : Sniffing + rtmpdump

[Noprseman]

I did however reading other post there seems to be some that shut after a hours mins or days. They change stream location. Refering back the RTMP sports post where they seemed to just shut down....

[Noprseman]

Ok I get a Error....

Trying this a few ways. Not sure what is wrong...

Could not contact RTMP_HASHSWF could not contact swf url.

Here is my code.

call rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://85.17.31.98/streamhq/103222 -W http://streamhq.tv/player/player.swf -p
http://streamhq.tv/player.php?channel_id=103222 | %vlc% -

Now it does play however then dies after a few mins.

[screensports]

Ok I get a Error....

Trying this a few ways. Not sure what is wrong...

Could not contact RTMP_HASHSWF could not contact swf url.

Here is my code.



Now it does play however then dies after a few mins.

I already had that some days ago. I tried to get swfSize and swfHash by downloading SWF player. But the issue is once you download SWF player it is only 1KB and it is impossible to decompress it with flasm.

[Vaganza]

How do I easily change one digit in jrgon’s rtmpdump gui 1.2 .exe
from 2 to 1 [\ p r o g r a ~ 2 \] ?
Altering with either Note- or WordPad, saving as is (.exe) will, when re-opened with
W.7 (64 bit.), tell me that: “The version of this file is not compatible with the Windows version
you are running”. etc. Compatibility mode for W. XP doesn’t work either.

I’m not familiar with how to do it in “Visual Basic” or “~ Studio”.

(Read: ‘opening it in those is a nightmare’)

[Bytebuster]

...bear with me for a moment, I did some research, read through a lot of interesting stuff and just started 'experimenting' - SO beware, I am far from experienced, guess you experts had to start at some point too, "innit" ??

I apologize in advance if this is a silly question but I can't seem to figure out the solution (if any) for the problem at hand.

Most 'streams' work fine but some.... lol well, here goes. This is a dump for a Bl**berg US stream.

RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
WARNING: You haven't specified an output file (-o filename), using stdout
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   width                 640.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   framerate             30.00
INFO:   videodatarate         1000.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a

0.238 kB / 0.00 sec
36.848 kB / 0.00 sec
125.810 kB / 0.00 sec
230.132 kB / 0.00 sec
330.655 kB ~ CUT ~
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 38844

34251.349 kB / 364.88 sec
34251.349 kB / 364.88 sec
Download complete

...its obvious the stream stops. I've got some isues with streams failing to read RTMP headers on occasions too.

- Anything I can change (settings, values etc.) to resolve this issue? Kind of bothers me.
Especially on the Bl**mberg stream as I want to keep track of my MyP2P stock portfolio.

~ EDIT ~

Forgot to mention; this happens randomly, after several minutes, an hour or even longer. NOT after a fixed period of time.

[Noprseman]

Live stream changes the point of entry

[Bytebuster]

Live stream changes the point of entry

hmm...

However, my question was/is: "how to fix this issue?" - eg: (auto) resume.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

For downloading you can use --resume or -e but with it been live streaming im not sure if it can be used...?

[Bytebuster]

For downloading you can use --resume or -e but with it been live streaming im not sure if it can be used...?

Thanks mate but I already tried that. You can't use the --resume option in stdout mode.
If you add this option it simply will be ignored.

[MercersBlue]

@bytebuster

Sadly, I can't answer your query. However, this http/flv stream has been up for months. Perhaps this bat info will do until you can resolve the rtmp problem.

Bl00mberg.txt

[a-t]

...bear with me for a moment, I did some research, read through a lot of interesting stuff and just started 'experimenting' - SO beware, I am far from experienced, guess you experts had to start at some point too, "innit" ??

I apologize in advance if this is a silly question but I can't seem to figure out the solution (if any) for the problem at hand.

Most 'streams' work fine but some.... lol well, here goes. This is a dump for a Bl**berg US stream.

RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
WARNING: You haven't specified an output file (-o filename), using stdout
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   width                 640.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   framerate             30.00
INFO:   videodatarate         1000.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiodatarate         64.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a

0.238 kB / 0.00 sec
36.848 kB / 0.00 sec
125.810 kB / 0.00 sec
230.132 kB / 0.00 sec
330.655 kB ~ CUT ~
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 38844

34251.349 kB / 364.88 sec
34251.349 kB / 364.88 sec
Download complete

...its obvious the stream stops. I've got some isues with streams failing to read RTMP headers on occasions too.

- Anything I can change (settings, values etc.) to resolve this issue? Kind of bothers me.
Especially on the Bl**mberg stream as I want to keep track of my MyP2P stock portfolio.

~ EDIT ~

Forgot to mention; this happens randomly, after several minutes, an hour or even longer. NOT after a fixed period of time.

If you could provide a link to where you get the stream it would be easier to debug.

[tvmaster]

Is it possible to harvest streams from this site? Tried it with stream transport to no avail.

[Hawkeye34]

Is it possible to harvest streams from this site? Tried it with stream transport to no avail.

That is fortunately an MMS based stream, so you don't need rtmpdump. Even better is that I found the URL embedded in that page's HTML source. (hint: look for "mms")

[Bytebuster]

That is fortunately an MMS based stream, so you don't need rtmpdump. Even better is that I found the URL embedded in that page's HTML source. (hint: look for "mms")

Yes...
I can play the stream (from source) via browser (embedded player url) but via player it only works once (MMS url).
When I stop the stream and try to open it again it does not work anymore Seems it expires.