Comments on: How to download and save Bebo video files – the easy way.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:39:33 +0000

Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to find the .flv file for a Brightcove video on a Mac computer using Safari. I can’t download Orbit Downloader since it’s a Windows only program and the alternative program I was directed to doesn’t seem to detect the .flv file when I play the video so it doesn’t download it. I’ve searched my cache folder as well and can’t find an .flv file in it. I’ve also gotten the embed code for the video but anything that resembles a URL in it doesn’t work when I copy/paste it into my browser and add the proper extension.

Anyone please help if you can.

By: Dec

Dec — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:52:29 +0000

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By: Dec

Dec — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:49:15 +0000

i am trying to download a video i uploaded from bebo but the video embed code does not have any video egg in the code and i casnnot get it saved

can you help?

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:31:09 +0000

Hello everybody! I tried everything to download video from brightcove, but all failed, even the Grab Pro prescribed by Mark(the liar who claimed he succeeded), could any real genius stand up tell us the correct way? OMG!

By: Mark B

Mark B — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:30:18 +0000

more details:

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By: Mark B

Mark B — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:25:04 +0000

sorry again…

param name=”flashvars” value=”&file=pf_sergio_gurgel_dir_penal_aula_01_video_02.flv&backcolor=999999&streamer=rtmpe://tichost9.zapto.org/canal&dock=true&image=preview.jpg&skin=controlpanel&bufferlength=15″ /

By: Mark B

Mark B — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:39 +0000

sorry, this:

By: Mark B

Mark B — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:21:57 +0000

How do I get this flv: Baixe o Flash para ver o player.

By: Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:42:03 +0000

Mark… thank you for sharing your findings with us. Your detailed info is very well explained and welcoming. I will test your solution myself over the next few days and report back here with my results.

Thanks again Mark!

Kieran

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:13:21 +0000

Great news guys! I was able to download using GrabPro on IE7. Although GrabPro is from Orbit, don’t use Orbit’s Grab++.. Grab++ won’t work because brightcove is now using rmtpe on new content.

Here’s how to use it http://www.orbitdownloader.com/GrabPro-tutorials.htm. Just remember to start downloading as soon as it detects a streaming video. If it ends abnormally just refresh the page and try again.

Quick note, Sometimes this doesn’t work on TV streams or lists because the player keeps loading another file after playing just a few seconds.

I would like to share something I was able to come up with the help of Aman and a few other posts.

From this line
“rtmp://brightcove.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/a500/d7?..”

the “:1935″ is actually a port number similarly used with SSL. That’s why Grab++ never gets a connection to the server and ends up retrying forever. If you take a look here http://support.brightcove.com/en/docs/content-delivery-options#fms you’ll see that rtmpe is, and I quote, ‘..an enhanced and encrypted version of RTMP developed by Adobe systems for securing the stream data between flash client and server…’. This means rippers that rely on header information to get the exact file being streamed has no way of getting it.

From what Aman shared I was able to make these comparisons:

With RTMP, original donwloadable file sample:

location is: http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d5/unsecured/media/165012893/165012893_1536203463_3b0dc04c7b783ac69e980852ea8387aea8e3f543.flv

Actual file is: 165012893_1536203463_3b0dc04c7b783ac69e980852ea8387aea8e3f543.flv

With RTMPE, from Orbit’s Grab++

[code omitted here]..OBT_fname=340478121_1793085102_taitvs3ep16-brightcove.flv

If you look at the two closely, they both have the format of

[ACCOUNT ID]_[some code]_[file_name].flv

With RTMP, the [filename] part is a 40char hex hash code. For the RTMPE it's like a simple machine readable code. So the only way to get the exact file name is to find a way to get the hash code portion. If this is a database entry then there's no hope. But if this is generated by some code/key and algorithm then maybe there's a chance to get the exact file. I have tried many samples from the code passed by Grab++ and used Sha1 to get a 40char hex hash code but all download attempts failed.

That's all I have to share. Good luck to you all and have fun!