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====== Ripping PBS videos ======

So you've tried streamtransport, rtmpsuck, rtmpdump and various searches on the web but everything came up short or sucked badly.
This was what happened to me before I figured out you only need two very simple tools; one to figure out what the video stream URL is the other to grab it.

  * Download URL Snooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsnooper/
    * What a great tool you can't bypass this as its watching the NETWORK traffic and looking for URL regex patterns.
  * Launch the browser on the video you want to watch. 

Examine URL snooper for the .m3u8 stream.

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  * Download FFMPEG - http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
  * Construct a download URL like the following 
    
Split for readability.  This should be all on one line.    
<code>
ffmpeg -i "http://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/cove2.0/art-21/
449de345-bc3e-4bab-8591-6f0ec2efc3b7/2013-11-21-163504/hd-mezzanine-16x9/artf502_hd_mezz-16x9-hls-800k.m3u8"
 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.mp4
</code>

If you inside Australia you'll have an issue accessing the PBS video in the first place due to right restrictions.
You can workaround by using host outside of the country.

===== Sample Run =====

<code>
ffmpeg -i "http://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/cove2.0/art-21/
449de345-bc3e-4bab-8591-6f0ec2efc3b7/2013-11-21-163504/hd-mezzanine-16x9/artf502_hd_mezz-16x9-hls-800k.m3u8"
 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.mp4
ffmpeg version N-60456-g4040b56 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Feb  8 2014 22:06:34 with gcc 4.8.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
le-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetyp
e --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --ena
ble-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-l
ibopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libsp
eex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aa
cenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavp
ack --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
  libavutil      52. 63.101 / 52. 63.101
  libavcodec     55. 50.100 / 55. 50.100
  libavformat    55. 30.100 / 55. 30.100
  libavdevice    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
  libavfilter     4.  1.102 /  4.  1.102
  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
  libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'http://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/cove2.0/art-21/
449de345-bc3e-4bab-8591-6f0ec2efc3b7/2013-11-21-163504/hd-mezzanine-16x9/artf502_hd_mezz-16x9-hls-800k.m3u8':
  Duration: 00:54:30.29, start: 10.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
  Program 0
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 640x360 
    [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 174 kb/s
File 'output.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, mp4, to 'output.mp4':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf55.30.100
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 640x360 
    [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 29.97 fps, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, stereo, 174 kb/s

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
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frame=98012 fps=3602 q=-1.0 Lsize=  384807kB time=00:54:30.41 bitrate= 963.9kbits/s
video:318073kB audio:64851kB subtitle:0 data:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.491705%
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