compn wrote:

it would be nice if , given a player url, rtmpdump could decompress and checksum the hash and use those values with --swfhash and --swfsize automatically.

I was thinking about that too. I still prefer caching the info rather than re-downloading the player for every invocation though. (That's what my scripts do.) That would mean creating something like a ~/.rtmpdump/ for storing the cached info. Which is fine with me, if no one else objects. e.g. ~/.rtmpdump/www.foobar.com.player.info containing the HTTP timestamp of the SWF, and its size and hash. (Storing the HTTP timestamp allows us to use HTTP Get If-Modified-Since and avoid the download if the file hasn't changed.) -- hyc