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get-flash-videos package

  1. Bug #1210314
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1210314

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Pigeon (x-launchpad-ubuntu) wrote :

Yes, I rarely run the latest version of anything - I generally run the oldest version that will do what I want, to reduce clutter.

I have just tried again using get-flash-videos version 1.25~git2012.06.27-1 for Saucy freshly downloaded from the Ubuntu website, and the same URL. Without the patch, this does still fail in the exact same manner as in my original report.

With the patch applied, however, it succeeds - but today it retrieves an MP4 video over HTTP, whereas yesterday, for the same URL, it retrieved an FLV over RTMP, as shown above. This is the output from the patched version today:

$ get_flash_videos --debug http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23626232
2 plugins installed:
- Hulu.pm
- Itv.pm
Trying to open plugin ~/.get_flash_videos/plugins/Www.pm
Trying to open plugin ~/.get_flash_videos/plugins/Bbc.pm
Using method 'bbc' for http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23626232
Downloading http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23626232
-> GET http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23626232
<- 200 text/html text/html; charset=utf-8 (58275)
-> GET http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23626232A/playlist.sxml
<- 200 text/xml (4864)
-> GET http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/p01dwkgh
<- 200 text/xml (5841)
Downloading http://news.downloads.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/mps_h264_hi/public/news/uk/1001000/1001225_h264_1500k.mp4?at=oBWKGaMw3f12418bb84241a43680b069d772c307acacb8dd4e38ab4135340...
-> GET http://news.downloads.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/mps_h264_hi/public/news/uk/1001000/1001225_h264_1500k.mp4?at=oBWKGaMw3f12418bb84241a43680b069d772c307acacb8dd4e38ab4135340
1001225_h264_1500k.mp4: 100% (22667.88 / 22667.88 KiB)<- 200 video/mp4 (0)

Done. Saved 23211909 bytes to 1001225_h264_1500k.mp4

Obviously something has changed on the BBC website as while the content of the video is the same, the format is different from when I posted the original report.

If you tried using the same URL as I did, then I would guess that maybe there was more than one change on the BBC website and at the time you tried to recreate it they were serving data which was compatible with the unpatched version. Or maybe you are not in the UK and it serves a different page outside the UK.