downloading a stream

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Am 04.12.2014 um 11:35 schrieb jd1008:
>
 > On 12/04/2014 01:09 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
 >> Am 03.12.2014 um 23:15 schrieb jd1008:
 >>>
 >>> On 12/03/2014 02:52 PM, Peter Reed wrote:
 >>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39:07 -0700 jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com>
 >>>> wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>> fc20. using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how do I download a
 >>>>> stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says is made of
 >>>>> many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f
 >>>>>
 >>>>> When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any
 >>>>> media player.
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>> .f4f is a broken or incomplete .flv file and that would be why
 >>>> it is not playable. Peter
 >>> Alright, so how do I download the stream? I see on the web some
 >>> ideas, among them livestreamer, a package which is not provided
 >>> by fedora nor by rpmfusion.
 >>>
 >> Try youtube-dl, a command line tool available from Fedora, and easy
 >> to use, e.g.: youtube-dl
 >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
 >>
 >> Should also work with flash videos.
 >>
 >>
 > I did try it before I posted my question. It quits and says report
 > this problem to yt-dl ....etc

Nevertheless, in general yt-dl is worth a try, even if it might not help 
with your special video stream. It gets updated very frequently.