Video Capture

[Seann Clark]

Seann Clark wrote:
> 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
Correction, the addon I was thinking of is download helper 
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006)


~Seann
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