[rtmpdump] rtmpdump not working with dailymotion

[Howard Chu]

Nicolas George wrote:
> Le duodi 2 pluviôse, an CCXX, chapun67 at gmail.com a écrit :
>> try use option (-v)
>
> Thanks, that did the trick.
>
> After some more experimenting, I noticed the following information:
>
> The -f (flash version string), -W (URL of flash player) and -p (referrer
> URL) options are not necessary here.
>
> The required options are:
> rtmpdump -v -r $rurl -y $ppath -o $out
>
> The core of the problem lies in that rtmpdump incorrectly splits the URL
> into the app and playpath; here, by "incorrectly", I only mean with regard
> to what dailymotion expects.
>
> More precisely, the URL is split that way by RTMP_ParseURL (I shortened it):
>
> rtmpe://v.dm.cm/video/mp4:43/701/3954:mp4_h2_c_hq.mp4?auth=1351-08cd2a
>                  ------------                                           app
>                        ----   ----------------------------------------- ppath
>
> while dailymotion expects it to be split
>
> rtmpe://v.dm.cm/video/mp4:43/701/3954:mp4_h2_c_hq.mp4?auth=1351-08cd2a
>                  -----                                                  app
>                        ------------------------------------------------ ppath
>
> I do not really know what app and playpath are, so for now I am stuck
> investigating the problem, and can not propose a patch.
>
> But for now, I have the means to make a working script.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their help.

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