[FFmpeg-user] OT: How to download a video

[JD]

I am using firefox and Inspect element is not working :(
Also, I did download the page source, and grep'ed the file for mp4
and found none :(


On 11/04/2017 11:51 AM, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 11:26:42 -0600, JD wrote:
>> Could someone please tell me a linux tool that will download the video at
>> http://www.pbs.org/video/wfyi-local-productions-temple-makers/
>>
>> Youtube-dl could not do it.
> Remember to always use the latest version of youtube-dl, as streaming
> websites are "moving targets":
>
> $ ./youtube-dl http://www.pbs.org/video/wfyi-local-productions-temple-makers/
> [pbs] Downloading JSON metadata
> [pbs] wfyi-local-productions-temple-makers: Downloading webpage
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading widget/partnerplayer page
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading portalplayer page
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading hls-400-2500k-16x9 video url info
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading m3u8 information
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading mp4-2500k-16x9 video url info
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading hls-800k-16x9 video url info
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading m3u8 information
> [pbs] 2365795021: Downloading mp4-baseline-16x9 video url info
> [pbs] 2365795021: Checking http-1200k video URL
> [pbs] 2365795021: Checking http-2500k video URL
> [pbs] 2365795021: Checking http-800k video URL
> [pbs] 2365795021: Checking http-400k video URL
> [download] Destination: The Temple Makers - The Temple Makers-2365795021.mp4
> [download]   0.8% of 1.00GiB at  1.62MiB/s ETA 10:27^C
> ERROR: Interrupted by user
> $
>
> Works just fine!
>
> A little hint: One video URL is directly in the source which my browser
> gets, I just right-click in the video, select "Inspect element"
> (Firefox, Chrome(ium), Opera), and see the URL
> https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/wfyi-local-productions/2e9d36ba-d5f6-4d45-84df-b5ca5acd551c/250267/hd-mezzanine-16x9/2c382920_l-00004055-16x9-mp4-baseline.mp4
> which is downloadable (albeit a low quality version, I think).
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
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