Wget for downloading a public file (stream) as mp4
I need a hint for using wget for getting a free content from a TV station that is streaming its material for a while until it appears on any video platform, that means no use of illegal methods, because it is on air, recently published and available. But reading the manual for wget I tried the following without success.
The manpage tells about the header to set it like this for instance ' to use this for quoting
Furthermore I read about the HTTPS Options to set it like the following
All I get is that the download will be stored in the wget-log. So may someone can give me a hint, how to do better? My interface stays very quiet.
Or should I use the option of
Thanks in advance. And to anticipate some hints about axel or curl, I want to try it with wget. All that comes down the line is the html file, nothing else, so I am doing wrong. The wget-log tells me in detail how the download for this html took place. But I did not get one chunk of the film.
And it is written like this, no special characters in this very line.
Thanks in advance for any hint that helps. For sure in about three or four months I can download a crippled version on a video platform. But maybe it works a bit better this way.
The webpage does not download the movie, which is why wget doesn't get it. Flash Player downloads the movie, in a complicated rube goldberg scheme involving javascript and cookies. Sorry.
Okay, despite of geoblocking and all the rest, content of whatever nature turns out to be a valuable thing like spices in the 14.th century. Thanks for testing it.
Hi,
Apologies if I'm posting in wrong section.
How can I find length (duration) of MP4 videos and m4a audio files on cygwin?
I heard about mediainfo, ffmpeg, avconv utilities on Linux platform but not sure if they work (or available) on cygwin.
Please advise,
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I tried a tool called mediainfo
> brew info media-info
media-info 0.7.51
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Depends on: pkg-config
/usr/local/Cellar/media-info/0.7.51 (3 files, 14M)
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/media-info.rb
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