rtmpdump - Die Sendung mit der Maus

In my post from 5 March 2010 , I wrote about Die Sendung mit der Maus. At last, you can now watch Die Sendung mit der Maus in its entirety  as a Flash video online! For 7 days, until the next episode of Die Sendung mit der Maus. The resolution isn’t HD (512x288 at 25fps, H264), but at least you can save it to your hard drive – if you know how. The programme that makes this possible is, of course, open source: rtmpdump  . The command line is:

rtmpdump -r rtmp://wdr.fcod.llnwd.net/a4331/e1 \-a a4331/e1 \-y mp4:tv/maus/flash/ganze_sendung/20120311_enmee_dsl.mp4 \-W http://www.wdr.de/themen/global/flashplayer/AS2/wsPlayerAS2.swf \-p http://www.wdrmaus.de/aktuelle-sendung/index.php5 \-f "LNX 11,1,102,63" \-o ~/maus.flv \-V \-B 1800

The details, in particular the -y parameter (which file?) and sometimes the -f parameter (which Flash version?), must of course be adapted to the specific programme. You can find out the required parameters by looking at the source code of the website. Or by using rtmpsuck. A simple introduction can be found here  . If it doesn’t work, I’m happy to answer any questions. Nevertheless, I still use the Online TV Recorder  . That’s where you’ll find the ‘Maus’ programme in 680x360 at 25fps, MPEG-4.