Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 12 Feb 2012 02:07:28 Grant wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> >>> I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than
> >>> many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be
> >>> more militant...
> >> 
> >> Nah!  No need to apologise.  Respecting the wishes of the content
> >> creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in
> >> reverse!  Ha, ha, ha! :-))
> > 
> > Thanks for your willingness to allow me to continue attending... :-)))
> > 
> >> Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream
> >> address and then download it directly to your machine?
> >> 
> >> I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account
> >> with them.
> > 
> > Never heard of it actually, and frankly I'm so enamored of just
> > streaming what I want when I want it that I don't really want to save
> > anything. Just the good stuff at NetFlix+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime ==
> > more than I can watch in the next few years. I just keep on VMWare VM
> > for watching all this stuff and haven't had any problems that I
> > couldn't overcome pretty easily.

If rtmpdump works (it may well not) you can pipe its output to mplayer, or 
wherever you want.

> Since I don't want to run VMWare, mine goes (Netflix+makemkv)+Hulu
> Plus+Amazon Prime.  Loving it, although this new Amazon problem is a
> thorn in my side.

Let's try to remove this thorn, in case we might be able to:

Emerge rtmpdump:

$ eix -l rtmp
[I] media-video/rtmpdump
     Available versions:  
			2.3 "amd64 ~arm hppa ppc ppc64 x86 ~x86-fbsd" [gnutls polarssl 
ssl]
		(~)	2.4 "~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" [gnutls 
polarssl ssl]
		**	9999 [gnutls polarssl ssl]
     Installed versions:  2.4(23:23:30 08/12/11)(ssl -gnutls -polarssl)
     Homepage:            http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/
     Description:         Open source command-line RTMP client intended to 
stream audio or video flash content


Fire up your browser, or whichever way you normally access your content.  Do 
not start streaming yet.  We need to redirect the stream:

# iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT


Start a server:

# rtmpsrv


Now try to start playing the content using your browser, flash player or what 
not.  After a few seconds (be patient) there should be a URL stream shown on 
the terminal you started the server from.

Close the server (Ctrl+c) and remove the redirect in your iptables:

# iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT


Now go to a terminal and paste in the stream.  If it succeeds downloading 
you're in luck!  If not try rtmpsuck in case that works.

If you are getting adverts at the start of the stream then you may need to 
wait a bit longer until the main video starts and a different stream shows up.  
Some times blocking cookies in the browser can screw things up, so beware of 
that.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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