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Afr0
Created : 24 February 2011
 

How to download Flash videos



https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/294007-How-to-record-streaming-flash-video-edit-and-save-as-AVI-MP4-FLV-etc
Finally a guide (includes links to proper tools) for downloading Flash videos that actually work.
This isn't really necessary for YouTube etc (there are already several dedicated sites for downloading from YouTube), but if you come across Flash videos that are streamed in blobs using HTTP or RMTP, you'll want to take a look at this.

 

Comments
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 12:55
JL235
 		You can also use Proxomitron. It's a local proxy allowing you to alter the headers on incomming messages. You alter the header to tell the browser to cache, point your browser to the proxy and now every song/video you play is always stored in the browsers local cache.

You also have to increase your browsers cache size to ensure it doesn't delete them when it gets full.
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 13:29
Stealth
 		I typically right click and hit "Inspect Element" in Chrome and then head over to the network tab and grab the URL to the file it's streaming. Works almost all the time and it requires no additional tools.
Friday, 25 February 2011, 04:42
HoboBen
 		Until Adobe updated their flash player, Google chrome used to save anything streamed in your nice accessible /tmp folder (or the windows user equivalent). Now it uses the local browser cache folder which jumbles it in with all the images and crap, and gives it a stupid name like f000001_1
Friday, 25 February 2011, 07:05
JL235
HoboBen Until Adobe updated their flash player, Google chrome used to save anything streamed in your nice accessible /tmp folder (or the windows user equivalent). Now it uses the local browser cache folder which jumbles it in with all the images and crap, and gives it a stupid name like f000001_1

Gnome however looks inside the file rather then just the extension, so it can identify (most) of the files for you. At least it can with FF's cache.