RTMPDump For Linux

RTMPDump is an open source and freely distributed command-line software that has been engineered as a toolkit for downloading RTMP streams, supporting the rtmp://, rtmps://, rtmpe://, rtmpt:// and rtmpte:// protocols.

RTMPDump is part of the powerful and popular FFmpeg project, and can be implemented in your video downloader application if you want it to support all forms of RTMP. Also, it includes the librtmp library, which contains the main protocol code.

Lots of free and open source projects are using the RTMPDump tool, including youtube-dl, get-flash-videos, iFetch, iViewNapper, RTMPDump-YLE, python-iview, streamCapture, mlbviewer, PlayDownloader, rtmpdumphelper, MTV.it download, as well as Ed's iPlayer JavaScript BBC ripper.

To install the RTMPDump program on your GNU/Linux operating system, first download the latest release from its website or via Softpedia, save the archive somewhere on your Home directory, and use an archive manager utility to uncompress it.

Then, open a terminal emulator application and use the ‘cd’ command to navigate to the location of the extracted archive files (e.g. cd /home/softpedia/rtmpdump-2.3). There, you must run the ‘make’ command to compile the project and output the binaries.

After a successful compilation process, you can install the binaries included in the RTMPDump project by running the ‘sudo make install’ command as a privileged user, or the ‘make install’ command as root. Then, run either of the ‘rtmpdump’, ‘rtmpgw’, ‘rtmpsrv’ or ‘rtmpsuck’ commands to download RTMP streams.

Taking a look under the hood of the RTMPDump program, we can notice that it has been written entirely in the C programming language and that it is compatible with computers supporting either of the 32 or 64-bit CPU architectures.