Originally posted by lrd dfcn
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Load the URL provided by DT in an RSS reader, or read it as XML using a text editor. If you examine it as text, you will see HTTP or HTTPS links for direct download of many videos from the defcon media server. If you examine it with an XML parser/display tool, then you should see links to download video, too, but easier to read without understanding XML.
From:
URL1=https://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-7-video.rss
using an XML-reader, I don't see XML. I only see the interpreted XML, which is formatted but looks kind of like this (converting to pseudo-html using VB markup.)
Originally posted by URL1-top-first-entry
Wikipedia can give you links to help you understand what an mv4 video file is.
You might also want to google about "XML" and "RSS" to understand more.
After downloading the m4v file mentioned above:
Originally posted by checksums
Posting a bug report is good, and welcome. However, posting a complaint and asking such a basic question without investigating this on your own suggests you did not google any part of this or inspect the contents you pasted to try to answer this on your own. Looking at the XML you pasted shows you several links for downloading many videos. A *NIX shell, one-liner using xmlstarlet, or even grep/sed/tr and other tools or perl could pull out links to download videos, if you don't have support for XML in your browser. This post has enough hints for you to use google to find a solution to getting a list of all video links for downloading DC7 videos.
Hint: if you do decide to download all videos, it is best to serialize your download and NOT try to download them in parallel. Serialized downloads, one at a time decreases risk of angering the firewall.
Learn or don't; it is your choice.
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