Portable stream ripper?

[freakazoid]

Looking for a portable freeware stream ripper that can save streams such as MMS, RTSP, etc.

Not sure if any exist though...

[LzBy1]

You can try Firefox portable with some add-ons. I know there are several add-ons out there that give Firefox that functionality. I don't know if it will work or how well it will work, but it's better than nothing.

[ahoier]

LiveHTTPHeaders is a firefox extention that can grab the headers, allowing you to detect the "files" as they are played.

But you have to manually download them, it will only show you the files that firefox requests.

TheLastRipper (code.google.com has it from search) might be worth a try if you are a last.fm member.

[Kermode]

Funny LiveHTTPHeaders isn't on the official plugin site.

[Pim Borst]

You can use MPUI to dump the streams to disk.
Add the additional mplayer option -dumpstream in the Tools/Options dialog and open the stream with File/Play URL.
The status bar will first show 'Opening', you won't see or hear anything and after a while the status bar will change to 'Error'.
The ripped stream will then be written to stream.dump in the MPUI directory.

Pim.

[appsuser]

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_video_capture.html

"While watching a video in a Web site, you may sometimes want to save the video into your local drive, and then play it offline later. This utility allows you to capture .flv (Flash Video) files and RTSP/MMS video streams while the Web browser download and play them inside a Web page. After the entire video file is downloaded and played by the Web browser, the video file is saved in the folder that you selected, and you can play it offline later with any Video player.
WebVideoCap can capture the video files of most popular video-sharing sites, including YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Putfile, and more..."

[Midas]

Very old thread update: I absolutely needed to get a non-YouTube video (http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/9/20/33 ... a-close-by), something I hadn't done in a long while. After some digging, I got an URL:

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  http_://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us20130924.1212/BrightcoveBootloader.swf?playerID=2436822733001&playerKey=AQ~~%2CAAACK2FgrRk~%2CzMYAvvLCUEnZ-mTv8CGGUiLUaGDQZWv9&purl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nowness.com%2Fday%2F2013%2F9%2F20%2F3342%2Fthe-sea-close-by&%40videoPlayer=2679778759001&autoStart=&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&debuggerID=&dynamicStreaming=true&flashID=myExperience2679778759001&height=100%25&htmlFallback=true&includeAPI=true&isUI=true&isVid=true&originalTemplateReadyHandler=flashReady2679778759001&startTime=1380057849568&templateLoadHandler=flashLoaded2679778759001&templateReadyHandler=brightcove[%22templateReadyHandlermyExperience2679778759001%22]&width=100%25&wmode=transparent

  • (Remove 1st underscore to retrieve...)

Came to TPFC for the usual perusal of available tools, and eventually managed to do it. A brief report of my findings follows.

• WebVideoCap (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1440) -- didn't install winpcap, captured only 4 small (<25KB) unplayable files.

• X-xVideoServiceThief (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2512) -- apparently webservice based, captured nothing.

• StreamTransport (http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?t=6221) -- immediately displayed the video upon pasting the URL, played it alright when prompted, and downloaded without a fuss (previous findings regarding portability confirmed).

Didn't get to test Youtube Downloader HD (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1581; not an YouTube piece) and LiveHTTPHeaders (http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/; a tracing utility, not a downloader).

EDIT: ST is currently v1.0.2.2171 at the homepage; upon (Uni)Extracting there is a "Flash10d.ocx" file that is in fact "Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r42" according to its file properties dialog; I didn't expressly register it in my system and I'm not sure that ST uses this for playing Flash, instead of the system installed ActiveX component; I'm noting this here as a reminder in case some site doesn't accept older versions of Flash.

[freakazoid]

Have you given RTMPDumpHelper a try?

I usually use this first.

[Ruby]

@Midas

If you scroll to the bottom of that page (nowness.com) you will find their YouTube channel link; which has that (among other) videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/nowness

"Albert Camus - The Sea Close By" by Tom Beard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puH3bj3Rtew

~Ruby

[Midas]

Have you given RTMPDumpHelper a try?

No, but thanks, my dear freakzoid, for suggesting it -- one can't have enough tool alternatives, it seems...

If you scroll to the bottom of that page (nowness.com) you will find their YouTube channel link; which has that (among other) videos.

Thanks, dear Ruby, hadn't noticed that. To quote St. Raymond (in another context), "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" -- which has yet again been confirmed. I should've looked longer and more thoroughly. I'll try to, next time.