There are some nice session recordings on
http://weblion.psu.edu/services/videos/plone-symposium-east-2011
Problem: there are streamed, not downloadable. But I'd like to have them for watching while on the train etc.
What have I found out?
- vlc is a suitable tool for downloading the streams
- vlc does not automatically stop when having finished with the stream, even in command line mode. One needs to play the special vlc://quit file
- There is a nice overview over system calls at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/how-to-call-external-command-in-python (second answer)
I manually took the ids of the recordings that were interesting to me from the respective pages that link to them, and wrote a script that scrapes the actual 'movie pages' for the stream url (it contains session titles etc.).
This is the script:
import urllib2, re, os
streams = dict([(s[0],s[1]) for s in [l.split() for l in open('streams.txt').readlines()] if len(s)==2])
for name, num in streams.items():
pageurl = 'https://streaming.psu.edu/media/?movieId=%s' % num
page = urllib2.urlopen(pageurl).read()
result = re.findall('<param name="QTSRC" value="(.*?\.mp4)"/>',page)
movieurl = result[0]
command = '/usr/bin/vlc -Irc %s --sout=file/mp4:/home/joerg/Desktop/plonemovs/%s.mp4 vlc://quit' % (movieurl,name)
print command
os.system(command)
print 'fini'This is the data file, should be calles 'streams'.txt:
roadmap 13416
uwosh_timeslot 13419
connexions 13422
community 13425
easyslideshow 13428
kerberos 13431
sprint_intro 13434
addons 13359
jenkins 13407
accessibility 13389
theming 13260
accessible_integrator 13398
marketing 13368
plonevote 13395
agile1 13353
agile2 13356
migrating 13401
frontline1 13257
frontline2 13263
cloud 13392
workflow 13347
responsive 13344
laboratory 13362
subsites 13440
zopeskel1 13410
zopeskel2 13413