Ripping castup’s stream
November 19th, 2008 | 
Author: Just finished ripping a video stream of castup, and felt like sharing the knowledge – just in case somebody’ll need this sometime… Only for fair use, of course.
Step 1 – understand what’s the url of the video you’re trying to rip:
1.1. Run WireShark (previously known as Ethereal).
1.2. Add a capture filter for the TCP packets.
1.3. Play the video, until all the commercials are over, and the main stream starts to play.
1.4. Stop the capturing.
1.5. In WireShark’s list of packets – find the last HTTP GET command before the stream starts.
1.6. Easy enough, the server name and the exact url for the video are all in this single packet.
1.7. Test this url with your FireFox/Chrome – your stream starts to play. In my case it was:
http://s3awm.castup.net/server12/4779052-61.wmv?ct=IL&rg=IL&aid=206&st=1&ts=228&cu=11477B11-C8E1-4155-AE2A-C4D7A0C24987
Step 2 – Capture this stream into a file.
2.1. For a win32 compiled version of mencoder, I downloaded Goo Media Center from http://sourceforge.net/projects/goomediacenter/.
2.2. To capture the audio I used uncompressed pcm audio.
2.3. To capture the video I used a simple frame by frame copy encoder.
2.4. The final command line became:
mencoder -oac pcm -oav copy -o c:\1\filename.avi “http://s3awm.castup.net/server12/4779052-61.wmv?ct=IL&rg=IL&aid=206&st=1&ts=228&cu=11477B11-C8E1-4155-AE2A-C4D7A0C24987″
About an hour later – I had the stream, as a file, on my computer – waiting to be editted.
Step 3 – use your favorite video editting software to do whatever you want with this file.
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Managed to isolate an flv file, ripping those is much less fun.
While WireShark and Packet sniffers are interesting to use, sometimes all you wanna do is to rip some videos.
In this case, for the stubborn flics, I recommend a hassle-free URL investigator and downloader: Orbit Downloader [www.orbitdownloader.com]:
Orbit’s included Grab++ tool inquires the browser’s activity to maintain a list of video sources (Flash too), juts wait until all the commercials are over, and the main stream starts to play.