Can anybody try and download a video stream for me?

m_c · 30 May 2020 at 19:03

I've just been asked by my mum to try and download the stream from my Uncle's cremation service, as the stream is supposed to disable tomorrow, however I can't even get it to play. The embedded player just sits and spins.

Looking at the network traffic in the Console tool, it appears it's downloading the stream in blocks of less than 1mb. If I copy the url for each block, I can download and watch each block, but it won't let me grab the entire file. Doing it individually is going to take some time, as there's 40min of video and each block is about 10 seconds.

Can anybody help?

iamtheoneneo · 30 May 2020 at 19:22

Have you tried IDM to see if it can pick up the link and download it

Steampunk · 30 May 2020 at 19:22

Maybe give the URL?

m_c · 30 May 2020 at 19:24

Sorry, I should have said, you need to login to see the video player.
If anybody wants to try, just let me know and I'll PM you the details.

Energize · 2 Jun 2020 at 19:25

Surely you could ask the funeral directors for this?

m_c · 5 Jun 2020 at 12:53

Energize said:
Surely you could ask the funeral directors for this?

It's apparently not that straight forward, as the stream was provided by the crematorium.

In all honesty, I think all this infrastructure was quickly thrown in place due to the Covid restrictions, without my thought about things.
I think the stream was pretty much a webcam thrown up in the corner using it's inbuilt microphone to pickup the audio from a nearby PA speaker, then streamed through a third party provider.