I take as example a typical, "hard to handle" web page with video content: http://www.radioradicale.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.

-StefaniaCastelli (November 26, 2009, 10:33 AM)

you created the wrong url.
"rtmp://video-12.radioradicale.it/store-51/mp4:FL532501.f4v"
is the correct url, and works with rtmpdump.

you will find more help in downloading streams at the stream recording forum: http://stream-recorder.com/forum/

With the --resume switch I can continue the capturing, but only with errors ....
And then it stops again... So I had to manually resume the capturing about 10-15 times, resulting in corrupt stream data, where the download sessions begin and end.
VLCplayer can still play the output file, but with audio/video artefacts every few seconds ....

rtmpdump isnt the best program for this stream. i suggest you try it in Orbit Downloader.

hm ... but for my unexperienced eyes, this seems pretty hard to guess ....

Is there no way to find the string "rtmp://oijqodbttndn.rtmphost.com/hostelworld/paris_hipotelbellville.flv" in the raw dump or could URLsnooper be used to find/assemble this string automatically ?

-boarders paradise (June 15, 2009, 03:01 PM)

there is no way to find that string in the packet dump. most sites dont work like that. some sites use xml playlists which work well with urlsnooper...  it wasnt made for flash streaming (RTMP). you'd have to ask mouser if he plans to do it.