How to easily download itTV videos

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Thanks to our friends from def.kondopoga.ru we can present this to you - download away! Just don't forget to put them on MegaUpload and post links in relevant threads.

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Here is how to download from new itTV service:
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In
 each link to a specific match (say Ma Long vs Chen Qi at German Open 
2010 has the following link

http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/iframe/player.html?pfad=CHANNEL1-Seniors/german_open_2010/100321_MA_Long_CHN_vs_CHEN_Qi_CHN
)
 you need to replace

http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/iframe/player.html?pfad=CHANNEL1-Seniors

by

rtmp://cp77194.edgefcs.net/ondemand/CHANNEL1-Seniors

to
 receive the final rtmp link (ready for downloading)

rtmp://cp77194.edgefcs.net/ondemand/CHANNEL1-Seniors/german_open_2010/100321_MA_Long_CHN_vs_CHEN_Qi_CHN

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Here is how to download from old itTV service:
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Step 1. Download and install iWisoft Free Video Downloader

Step 2. Launch FVD, set up your options, and click on Start Monitoring.

Step 3. Then in your IE (FF, Chrome, etc.) window, switch to the desired video page. Download will start (unless you are behind specially configured firewall or anti-virus or a similar blocking software or your OS is set up to restrict your access to some Internet options).

If nothing happens (see likely reasons above) then you need to download the videos manually, which is also not a huge problem

Step 4. In your browser go to http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/itTV.asp?category=ittv_New

Step 5. Find (in the list on the right) the tournament you are interested in (let's say, it is China Open 2009), click with Right Mouse Button and select Save As - 
http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/flashplayer_event_chinaopen.html

Step 6. Open the resulting HTML file with Notepad and you will see this

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>flashplayer3_as2</title>

</head>

<body>

<script src="swfobject.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <div id="flashplayer_event_chinaopen">
        <a href="http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/">FLASH PLAYER</a>
    </div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        // <![CDATA[

        var so = new SWFObject("flashplayer_event_chinaopen.swf", "flashplayer_event_chinaopen", "690", "480", "9", "#B8B8B8");
        so.addParam("allowfullscreen", "true");
        so.addVariable("xmlpfad", "playlist_chinaopen.xml");
        so.write("flashplayer_event_chinaopen");

        // ]]>
    </script>

</body>
</html>

Step 7. The actual playlist for the tournament is shown in red. Its location therefore is 
http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/playlist_chinaopen.xml

Save this file on your disk and open it again with Notepad (or with your favorite text editor).

Step 8. This file will list all the matches with links presented in so-called RTMP format. Below is a typical entry with direct link to the FLV video file shown here in red:

<video>
<pfad>
rtmp://cp77194.edgefcs.net/ondemand/china_open_tianjin/090816_china_hao_wang_shuai_hao.flv
</pfad>
<txt1>
Mens Single Final
</txt1>
<txt2>
WANG Hao CHN vs. HAO Shuai CHN
</txt2>
</video>

Step 9. Copy that link and download it manually using FVD (menu Tools/Manually Download). This way can be actually even more convenient than automatic download because it allows you to control which videos you need - imagine that while FVD running, every time you go to YouTube or to CNN Video or any page with embedded clips, those clips will be automatically downloaded (which will eat up your transfer rates and will clutter up your download directory).