Record Live stream

Question

How do I record the live streaming screen with audio? I read in some forums about Mplayer and VLC player. I tried using download helper, with no luck

These are the steps I do

1. http://shalomtv.tv
2. Click and play shalom India, the first tab, live television

Solution 1

The stream in your link seems to be a RTMP stream. Solution:

Downloading RTMP streams with rtmpdump and rtmpsrv

1. Install rtmpdump by opening your terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and using this command:

   sudo apt-get install rtmpdump
   

2. Redirect RTMP traffic through a local port. Copy & paste this command to the terminal window:

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

3. Start rtmpsrv by typing in the terminal:

   rtmpsrv
   

4. Go to the website where the video stream is and start playing the video.

5. After a while, rtmpsrv should output a longish command that will look something like this:

   rtmpdump -r "rtmp://livestream.someaddress.com/live/" -a "live/" -f "LNX 11,6,602,171" -W "https://www.someaddress.org/live/player.swf" -p "http://live.tv/" -y "nnnnnn.sdp" -o nnnnnn.flv
   

6. Stop rtmpsrv with Ctrl + C. You can leave the website.

7. Before downloading, you need to delete the port forwarding you did previously. Copy & paste this command to the terminal:

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

8. Finally, copy the longish command starting with "rtmpdump -r..." and paste it in the terminal. rtmpdump should start downloading the stream. You can stop the downloading with Ctrl + C.

Solution 2

I guess this is newish, but this thing is brilliant: youtube-dl-bdmurray.youtube-dl It's a "snap", so to install it you type

sudo snap install youtube-dl-bdmurray

Then I simply wrote youtube-dl-bdmurray.youtube-dl [url-containing-video]

on the command line, and it found the video, started the video (which was not automatic), downloaded/streamed the thing, and left me with a perfect mp4 file.

Comments

[pileofrocks]

@MadsSkjern: Edited answer. -A is append and -D is delete, so not permanently if you do the step 7.

[Mads Skjern]

It works, thx :) However, rtmpsrv also prints a few errors, which initially made me overlook the rtmpdump command. Are those errors expected?

[pileofrocks]

@MadsSkjern I don't remember (haven't used rtmpdump in a while), but if the downloading itself works, I wouldn't care about the errors.

[Antonio Petricca]

It does not work with youtube.com/watch?v=Gs4PyQ4uflo&ab_channel=BassYourLife .