How to download sliced mpeg movie stream

how-to-download-movie-from-srf.md

how-to-download-movie-from-srf

Check Network Request

Analyze the request and response

• seems as the movie stream is sliced up in many .ts files with just a few seconds

• m3u file found: index_0_av.m3u

    #EXTM3U
    #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
    #EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:YES
    #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
    #EXT-X-VERSION:3
    #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
    #EXTINF:10.000,
    https://srfvodhd-vh.akamaihd.net/i/vod/dok/2019/04/dok_20190407_161903_14275265_v_webcast_h264_,q40,q10,q20,q30,q50,q60,.mp4.csmil/segment1_0_av.ts?start=0.0&end=2995.32
    #EXTINF:10.000,
    https://srfvodhd-vh.akamaihd.net/i/vod/dok/2019/04/dok_20190407_161903_14275265_v_webcast_h264_,q40,q10,q20,q30,q50,q60,.mp4.csmil/segment2_0_av.ts?start=0.0&end=2995.32
  

Strategy to get them

• curl

• BeautiflSoup

      $ curl -O index.m3u 
  
      import os
      for line in open("index_0_av.m3u"):
        os.system("curl -O %s" % line)
  

Merging to one file

Merge downloaded files into one

            segment1_4_av.ts?start=0.0
            segment2_4_av.ts?start=0.0
            segment3_4_av.ts?start=0.0


            from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, concatenate_videoclips
            clip1 = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4")
            clip2 = VideoFileClip("myvideo2.mp4").subclip(50,60)
            clip3 = VideoFileClip("myvideo3.mp4")
            final_clip = concatenate_videoclips([clip1,clip2,clip3])
            final_clip.write_videofile("my_concatenation.mp4")