Sometime last year, PBS had abandon their previous RTMP video delivery system
for the newer HLS system (.m3u8) so 95% of the content of the current Pbs.pm
needs to be scraped.
The location of the .m3u8 and/or mp4 video files can be obtained from a JSON
encoded response to a url of the form
http://video.pbs.org/videoInfo/$media_id/
in which $media_id is obtained from the part of the program url
http://video\.pbs\.org/video/(\d+)
So if the program page is at http://video\.pbs\.org/video/2365395049, the video
information for this page can be obtained from the following url:
http://video.pbs.org/videoInfo/2365395049
The resulting .m3u8 links can easily be viewed in vlc.
PBS appears to have abandon the .flv video format.
For more information, please see the following:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/363819-Some-basic-questions-about-using-ffmpe
g-to-download-pbs-videos?p=2315159&viewfull=1#post2315159
Original issue reported on code.google.com by DansDra...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2015 at 2:06
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
DansDra...@gmail.com
on 26 Feb 2015 at 2:06