How can I save flash videos?

[ryy705]

I watch 100s of megs of flash videos online. But how do I save them? Where are they being saved when I am watching youtube on firefox. Many thanks in advance.

[Rog131]

Re: How can I save flash videos?


Firefox Add-ons: Browse Extensions by Category
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1

Search > flash > ... (Results: 1-10 of 37)


Dont know if this is good but ...

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[ryy705]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

Nope. Not working. Would you happen to know where the flash video files are saved on the computer?

[Rog131]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

Firefox is using file cache.

In The firefox - about:cache - displays info of file cache
My file cache:

Disk cache device

Number of entries: 2801
Maximum storage size: 50000 KiB
Storage in use: 28192 KiB
Cache Directory: /home/rog131/.diskcache/Cache

Note
Names a bit cryptic: 01AF47B5d01, 01CF23AEd01, 0FA06386d01, ....
Preview can help.


Moving file cache to the home folder (no problem with permissions):
1) about:config to create a new preference. (hidden preference that doesn't appear until you create it.)

2) Type in the Filter: browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
Right click - > New (string) -> Enter path /home/username/.diskcache (or something)


Links:

about: URI scheme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme

About:config entries
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_...config_Entries

How To Download And Save Youtube Videos
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/best_of_y...ave_youtu.html

Download YouTube Video With Greasemonkey Script
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lif...ey-script.html

[SheeEttin]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

If it isn't somwhere like YouTube, you can just hit Ctrl+U, then hit Ctrl+F, and search for "swf". If you see a URL ending with "swf", that's a Flash movie. Find the one you want, then copy the URL into a new tab and File > Save Page As...

[b0uncyfr0]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

I tend to rip everything online before watching it with Firefox, saves me some download.Its pretty easy using Kget and flashgot...

P.S The only problem is the auto-rename function which Kget seems to lack..

[ptmb]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

For videos from YouTube you can use VideoDownloader found on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390

It's a extension for Firefox. Every time that you want to download a flash movie just press the statusbar button and a popup window will apear. If it finds a flash movie, the popup will have a download button. You will problably have to add the extension

.flv

to the downloaded file. You can watch it on your browser or in VLC (there are probably more video players for flash).

[SheeEttin]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

Plus ffmpeg can convert FLVs.

[Robin T Cox]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

Use the UnPlug plugin in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2254

[Goofy_2]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

In short, e.g. with Firefox (as normal user):
goto to the cache: cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/..../Cache
When you are there, in the bash-CLI:
for x in *;do file $x|grep 'Macromedia Flash Video';done
(copy & paste this line to a bash-sript) and execute it.
After a hit: rename the file to something.flv
Test it e.g. with mplayer: mplayer something.flv
Move the movie as soon as possible to a safe place.

This works for YouTube, LiveLeak, etc., but not always.
There is a python-script: youtube-dl which is working with the URL of
the YouTube movie (again: not always).
Sometimes javascript is used. Then save the HTML-page and
try to discover the URL of the movie in it.
Streaming video can downloaded with mplayer (options -dumpstream -dumpfile) (again:....).

Good Luck

[marcelo_fontenele]

Re: How can I save flash videos?

Hi

I'm using this site to catch you tube videos. Works 100% here.

http://www.youtubecatcher.com/

I hope you have success

Marcelo Fontenele
Brazil