Quote from: 4wd on October 02, 2016, 11:46 PM

However, to get the stream with the higher resolution requires a different URL, eg.

Right, and so theres nothing that can be done on MFCrecorder as of yet?

Asudem has not released any code for his updated version of MFCRecorder, however the source is still available for the original release if you want to play with that.

Send him a PM, he was having trouble with thread notifications at one point.  Otherwise, he hasn't been active here or a couple of other sites I know of for the last 3-4 months, it could be that real life has reared it's ugly head 

Here's the section of the original source that builds the URL:

        private string GetVideoUrl(Model model)
        {
            try
            {
                if (_videoServers.ContainsKey(model.Camserv.ToString()))
                {
                    long modelid = model.Id;
                    if (modelid < 100000000) { modelid += 100000000; }

                    return string.Format("http://{0}.myfreecams.com:1935/NxServer/mfc_{1}.f4v_aac/playlist.m3u8", _videoServers[model.Camserv.ToString()], modelid);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Log.Error("GetVideoUrl Exception: " + ex);
            }

            return "-1";
        }

I assume that the section could be duplicated with the new parameters for the high-res stream with a fallback to the low-res if it encounters an error, eg. 404, etc.

Does anyone know what the URL's for the higher res streams would look like or where the in the 'non mobile' version of the site I can look at to get them?

See here, the links came from this Stream Recorder post.

At this post there is a small tool that will call Livestreamer to record the stream so you can test that there is a stream and the recorded resolution.  Of course, you could just use that tool to record a stream as it loops until a stream is found so you can run multiple instances, each with a different model.

To record the non mobile feed would require you to use RTMP protocol, (thereby using rtmpserv, rtmpsuck, or rtmpdump), and from what I've read the initial handshaking to get that stream isn't the standard.

You could use ffmpeg to capture either of the mobile streams, (m3u8 streams), that tool I pointed to just uses Livestreamer.  ffmpeg will give you the option of transcoding, eg. the audio stream to MP3, and then muxing into a MP4 container.

If you read a little more of the thread it also appears that adding the ngrp: and substituting _mobile is not guaranteed to get you the higher-res feed though.

This is only my interpretation of reading through the Stream Recorder forum but you could use rtmpserv or ffmpeg to capture the RTMP stream (the normal non-mobile stream) but you need to perform all the non-standard RTMP negotiation to get the URL to begin with.

MFC go out of their way to make capturing the RTMP stream hard - I think they also block the feed if more than one is detected going to the same IP with no valid login.

Just to clarify a bit more (possibly):
The URLs ending .m3u8 are the mobile streams, you can capture these using Livestreamer, ffmpeg, etc because it's just a HTTP streaming playlist.  You can play them with VLC, MPC-HC, etc.
(It should be noted that there is no mobile (m3u8) stream for Private.)

The non-mobile stream uses Flash and the URL is something like RTMPS://....flv - that requires a Flash video player at the client end.  rtmp(dump|suck|serv) and ffmpeg can capture RTMP(S) streams but there is handshaking to be done before the final URL is known.  As far as I understand, MFC messed around with handshaking a little so that it's not standard, so making it a little harder to retrieve the final RTMP(S) URL.

As I said, this is my interpretation of what I've read.

No news about being able to record at a higher bitrate folks?

Just to clarify a bit more (possibly):
The URLs ending .m3u8 are the mobile streams, you can capture these using Livestreamer, ffmpeg, etc because it's just a HTTP streaming playlist.  You can play them with VLC, MPC-HC, etc.

I found the ones that will be classified as "Away" by MFCRecorder but are indeed online can not be downloaded via this way. I wonder if their mobile stream have different URL format.

When viewing which site?
The MFC mobile or normal site?

Either site.

I found the ones I referred to in my last post are also labeled as "No Mobile Feed" by MFC's mobile site.

For example:

Any news on a better video quality version folks?

Hello friends!

Would it be possible to update the MFCRecorder due to recent changes in the MFC servers? The code could be transferred to others interested in giving continuity? Particularly I think it an excellent program.

So, is this it for the MFCRecorder as it no longer works?

Hi, i fixed the original version and now seems working again

Can you post a link to the working version maghetto?

Guess it's over