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Old 30th June 2011, 01:14   #3  |  Link
Robert Martens
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You can grab the stream with some minor detective work, if you want.

At that Fox Sports West page, view the source and search for the video ID ( _SeMs5xdJTNhA5dHUbpNK_WG9UvYWUtW ). The fourth match, under "// Select a release for playback", gives you the URL the player contacts to choose the appropriate stream. Visit that address and you'll be presented with a SMIL file named "content.select". Open it in a text editor, and you'll see the RTMP addresses for the three available versions of the video.

I'm not a streaming expert, so as far as getting through that URL to simply nab the MP4 from the server, I'm lost. I was, however, able to use RTMPDump to drop the output into an FLV file. Different container, same content (as far as I know). There are Windows binaries in the download directory; I grabbed version 2.3, at the bottom.

Keep in mind that at an hour and forty-eight minutes, even the low quality version of this video is over 520MB, so be prepared to wait a bit for the dump to finish.
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