Bharat Acharya Education Site Support

[shramanshraman]

for example log into bharatacharyaeducation.com and log in using these credentials email : chinnu.akanksh@gmail.com pwd: bankai and choose 8086 as topic for watching videos and afterwards video will play...and how do I download these videos

[Vangelis66]

Hello 😄

BAE is not supported directly in youtube-dl, so a specialised extractor would have to be created for that site; besides account credentials, the videos themselves, at least on desktop browsers, appear to be served in unencrypted MPEG-DASH streams, so, in theory, it should be possible 😉 ; anyone proficient in python (I'm not, sadly...) should be able to do it...

For non-programmers, here's a manual method:

1. Use a Firefox based browser (sorry, I detest Google Chrome!) - for my tests, I used Fx ESR 52.7.4 32-bit
2. After successfully loggin-in, choose your video-tutorial from the 8086 channel, e.g. Introduction to microprocessors
3. Clicking on Watch Now!!! should take you to
   http://bharatacharyaeducation.com/index.php/video/view?id=31
   and the video should auto-start; PAUSE the video.
4. Open Web Console (CTRL+SHIFT+K) and filter for mpd; you should find
   the DASH playlist (MPD, Media Presentation Description) in the results:

i.e. https://bae.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/videos/31/dash/f758e9a3df5b8216d7ee24c6332a2e9b.mpd

youtube-dl does support unencrypted DASH for VOD, so using something like

youtube-dl --console-title "https://bae.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/videos/31/dash/f758e9a3df5b8216d7ee24c6332a2e9b.mpd" --no-part -o "Introduction to Microprocessors.mp4"

should be enough; first the video-only stream will download, once completed, the audio-only should follow; make sure you have ffmpeg installed so youtube-dl will be able to combine them into a single .mp4 file!

HOWEVER, it appears the streams are being throttled server-side, so in practice it'll take quasi-real-time to dump (and that for just the video-only stream), so others more experienced may suggest the co-use of an external downloader for the task...

[generic] f758e9a3df5b8216d7ee24c6332a2e9b: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] f758e9a3df5b8216d7ee24c6332a2e9b: Downloading webpage
[generic] f758e9a3df5b8216d7ee24c6332a2e9b: Extracting information
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 866
[download] Destination: Introduction to Microprocessors.fvideo_avc1_4.mp4
[download]   1.2% of ~657.68MiB at 126.23KiB/s ETA 01:49:00

[usuallyhomeless]

any luck with downloading bharat acharya videos?