LondonReal Rose Icke V [large filesize]

1. You start watching using Firefox, and
2. open Tools -> Developer Tools -> Toggle Tools
3. select Network & Media to see the files being downloaded
4. Right-click a media (.TS) file and choose "Copy as Curl"

You're going to paste what you get into a Terminal Window! If you've never used Terminal before this could get tricky, but if you've got a little experience you should be able to follow this.

You'll something like

curl 'https://vod.freedomplatform.tv/mp4/raw/LR573%20-%20Icke%205-_HLSprofile.smil/LR573%20-%20Icke%205-__HLSprofile.mp4-n_8_0_0.ts' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5' --compressed -H 'Origin: https://freedomplatform.tv' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Referer: https://freedomplatform.tv/rose-icke-v-the-answer/'


Now, curl is a mac program for downloading files - this command will grab 1 of 1100 segments of the show. You can see the number 8 in ...mp4-n_8_0_0.ts - if you skip to the end of the video you can see the highest that goes is 1100.

I just used a little perl to grab all the files - with a sleep delay of 5 seconds so it takes about as long to download as it does to watch, in case they have a tripwire for Denial of Service attacks. Run it without the "| bash" on the end to see what it is doing.


perl -e'for ($n=0;$n < 1101; $n++ ) {
print "sleep 5; wget --user-agent \"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0\" --referer https://freedomplatform.tv/rose-icke-v-the-answer/ https://vod.freedomplatform.tv/mp4/raw/LR573%20-%20Icke%205-_HLSprofile.smil/LR573%20-%20Icke%205-__HLSprofile.mp4-n_$n"."_0_0.ts\n"
}'|bash


Presumably anything on the freedom platform can be truly set free this way.

Once you have all the files, these two lines of perl will rename them 0000.ts etc, and create a playlist.

ls LR* | perl -ne'chomp; $a=$_; $b = sprintf("%04d.ts",$1) if $a =~ m/-n_(\d+)_/; print "mv \"$a\" $b\n"'|bash
ls *.ts | perl -pe's/^/file /' > file.txt


Then take the playlist and load it into ffmpeg - installing that is a whole other kettle of fish if you need the latest codecs, I'll let you google that part.

This will simply reconstruct the original file - this is the best quality we can get, it should be slightly better than a screen capture. I'll upload it in a bit.

ffmpeg -nostdin -f concat -i file.txt -c copy "Rose-Icke V.mkv"


Then I like to shrink things with x265, which is about 2x as efficient as x264.

ffmpeg -nostdin -i Rose-Icke\ V.mkv -c:v libx265 -crf 29 -preset fast -c:a libfdk_aac -vbr 2 "Rose-Icke V.sm.mkv"


add in -o test.ts

Curl by default downloads the binary file to the screen as text!

So put that right after the curl command itself, to direct output to a file.

So you need to understand the perl snippet after the curl.

The curl only grabs 1 of 1100 TS files.

So i used perl to write out 1100 lines to grab the 1100 files. (Using wget, instead of curl, because it's a little simpler)