rtmpdump frontend for Yle servers
Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Antti Ajanki
License: GPLv2
Homepage: http://aajanki.github.com/yle-dl/index-en.html
Source code: https://github.com/aajanki/yle-dl
yle-dl is a rtmpdump frontend for downloading media files from the video streaming services of the Finnish national broadcasting company Yle: Yle Areena, YleX Areena and Elävä Arkisto.
Install dependencies: rtmpdump (version 2.4 or newer), python and pycrypto.
On Debian/Ubuntu installing packages rtmpdump, python and python-crypto satisfies the dependencies.
On OS X install rtmpdump with homebrew: brew install --HEAD rtmpdump and pycrypto with pip: pip install -r requirements.txt
To install run:
make install
Starting from version 1.99.9 yle-dl doesn't anymore require a modified rtmpdump or plugin. Instead, everything is now downloadable with the plain rtmpdump. To remove the remnants of previous versions run "make uninstall-old-rtmpdump".
RPM package:
contrib/yle-dl.spec is a spec file for creating RPM-package for Fedora.
yle-dl [yle-dl or rtmpdump options] URL
where URL is the address of the Areena or Elävä arkisto web page where you would normally watch the video in a browser.
yle-dl options:
--latestepisode Download the latest episodes
--showurl Print librtmp-compatible URL, don't download
--showtitle Print stream title, don't download
--vfat Create Windows-compatible filenames
--sublang lang Download subtitles, lang = fin, swe, smi, none or all
--rtmpdump path Set path to rtmpdump binary
--destdir dir Save files to dir
Type "rtmpdump --help" to see a full list of options.
Firewall must allow outgoing traffic on ports 80 and 1935.
yle-dl http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1544491 -o video.flv
yle-dl "http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=4&ag=28&t=&a=9390"
Playing in mplayer (or vlc and others) without downloading first:
mplayer "`yle-dl --showurl http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1544491`"