Issue 577 in get-flash-videos: PBS had changed video delivery formats last year, so relevant modules needs to be updated

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New issue 577 by DansDra...@gmail.com: PBS had changed video delivery
formats last year, so relevant modules needs to be updated
https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/issues/detail?id=577

Sometime last year, PBS had abandon their previous RTMP video delivery
system for the newer HLS system (.m3u8) so 95% of the content of the
current Pbs.pm needs to be scraped.

The location of the .m3u8 and/or mp4 video files can be obtained from a
JSON encoded response to a url of the form

http://video.pbs.org/videoInfo/$media_id/

in which $media_id is obtained from the part of the program url

http://video\.pbs\.org/video/(\d+)

So if the program page is at http://video\.pbs\.org/video/2365395049, the
video information for this page can be obtained from the following url:

http://video.pbs.org/videoInfo/2365395049

The resulting .m3u8 links can easily be viewed in vlc.

PBS appears to have abandon the .flv video format.

For more information, please see the following:

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/363819-Some-basic-questions-about-using-ffmpeg-to-download-pbs-videos?p=2315159&viewfull=1#post2315159



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Comment #1 on issue 577 by pcwal...@comcast.net: PBS had changed video

delivery formats last year, so relevant modules needs to be updated
https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/issues/detail?id=577

I finally got around to figuring out the change.

The new PBS site uses a form of rtmp that does not work with rtmpsrv and so
it took awhile to figure out the new rtmpdump parameters.

Attached is a new Pbs.pm module that works.

I'll try to make a github pull request in a day or two.

Attachments:
Pbs.pm 4.1 KB

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Comment #2 on issue 577 by pcwal...@comcast.net: PBS had changed video

delivery formats last year, so relevant modules needs to be updated
https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/issues/detail?id=577

FYI, njtaylor just merged the fix into the get_flash_videos github site.

This issue can be closed.