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UrlSnooper / Re: Any plans to crack Flash binary URLs
« on: November 26, 2009, 10:33 AM »
Before the advent of Flash/Silverlight Streaming Contents on all Main Media Web Sites the simple job of playing web contents on Stand Alone players was really easy, thanks to URL Snooper.
Flash and Silverlight completely changed this perspective and the problems a user need to front to get streaming content playing on a small customizable standalone player instead of a redundant and too extended web page are basically two:
1) find/extract the right url to reproduce on players
2) find a player able to reproduce the content
About the 1st point URL Snooper would need some more Mouser coding efforts in order to extract/compose the right URL.
I take as example a typical, "hard to handle" web page with video content: http://www.radioradi...ale.it/scheda/291832.
Using URL Snooper (even following "compn" suggestions or filling the "Manually Scan a URL" field) you won't get anything useful to feed your player.
Opening the page Source with a browser you'll find some lines in the player script (,streams: [{"url": 'mp4:FL532501.f4v',"duration": 4037}],netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://video-12.radioradicale.it/store-51/') so you should get the working URL (rtmp://video-12.radioradicale.it/store-51/FL532501.f4v).
Sadly, this link systematically crashes VLC and even other flv players are unable to handle it.
On the same page you can find some specific links to download the content, but this links expire automatically after three weeks.
(http://download.radi...2008/08/FL532501.f4v)
This one works but, as said, become unavailable after some times.
So, there's a mix of issues (right URL and Player compatibility) that makes the "independent streams watching" a hard job.
Stefania
Flash and Silverlight completely changed this perspective and the problems a user need to front to get streaming content playing on a small customizable standalone player instead of a redundant and too extended web page are basically two:
1) find/extract the right url to reproduce on players
2) find a player able to reproduce the content
About the 1st point URL Snooper would need some more Mouser coding efforts in order to extract/compose the right URL.
I take as example a typical, "hard to handle" web page with video content: http://www.radioradi...ale.it/scheda/291832.
Using URL Snooper (even following "compn" suggestions or filling the "Manually Scan a URL" field) you won't get anything useful to feed your player.
Opening the page Source with a browser you'll find some lines in the player script (,streams: [{"url": 'mp4:FL532501.f4v',"duration": 4037}],netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://video-12.radioradicale.it/store-51/') so you should get the working URL (rtmp://video-12.radioradicale.it/store-51/FL532501.f4v).
Sadly, this link systematically crashes VLC and even other flv players are unable to handle it.
On the same page you can find some specific links to download the content, but this links expire automatically after three weeks.
(http://download.radi...2008/08/FL532501.f4v)
This one works but, as said, become unavailable after some times.
So, there's a mix of issues (right URL and Player compatibility) that makes the "independent streams watching" a hard job.
Stefania