Video Capture

[Seann Clark]

homburg at tips-Q.com wrote:
> 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. 
>
> White flag!
>
>   
Stab in the dark, have you tried the Firefox plugin "Download them All" 
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201) it is pretty good 
at grabbing .flv files on most sites I have been to.



~Seann
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