RTMPDump-YLE (C) 2009 Antti Ajanki (C) 2009 Andrej Stepanchuk License: GPLv2 RTMPDump-YLE is a command-line program for downloading media files from YLE Areena, http://areena.yle.fi/, the video streaming service of the Finnish national broadcasting company. RTMPDump-YLE is based heavily on RTMPDump by Andrej Stepanchuk, which is based on XBMC RTMP code used in RTMPDumper by team boxee. json-c library is used for JSON parsing. Installation ------------ Prerequisites: libssl, libcrypto, libxml On Debian/Ubuntu installing packages libssl-dev and libxml2-dev satisfies the dependencies. ./configure make make install Usage ----- yle-dl yle_video_page_url [--auth YLEPassi-cookie] [rtmpdump-options] yle_video_page_url is the address of the web page where you would normally watch the video in a browser. To download programs that are available only to those who have paid the TV fee, use your browser to login at https://login.yle.fi/login/index.php?language=1&url=areena.yle.fi. Find the contents of ChatYleFi cookie from the browser (Firefox: Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Show cookies), and give it as --auth parameter. For example: yle-dl http://areena.yle.fi/video/261405 yle-dl http://areena.yle.fi/video/261405 -o /my/video/dir/video.flv Run yle-dl --help to see all options.