Video Capture

[homburg at tips-Q.com]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:52:05 -0500
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> homburg at tips-Q.com wrote:
> > Not specific to Fedora (my apologies in advance). Can
> > someone suggest a method by which I could capture
> > flash/flv content? In other words, I want to capture a
> > streaming video to disk. Can this be done?
> > 
> I have never tried actual streaming content, if the
> content is in an flv file you can just grab it with any
> of several scripts. I have them for old yuoutube, current
> youtube, and {something I needed at the time and forget}.
> You just give it the URL and optionally the filename
> where you want it.
> 
Of course, no method seems to work on this particular site.
Nothing I do is ever THAT easy. It uses the swfobject.js
script rather than embedding the media as an object. There
is no cache so there is nothing in /tmp. Based on
experimenting with wget, the actual media is in a protected
directory. 

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