Saving Flash

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:45 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 14:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > he one thing that you are missing is that some media suppliers don't
> > want folks to save the streams.  Folks like psb and bbc develop there
> > own "embedded players" that sit between the flash plugin and source. 
> > The communicate on port 1935.  There is no disk cache and the protocol
> > is client-server.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is all too common.  I'm not too bothered about
> saving most things on the net.  But I get continually snagged by
> services that are so lagged that I can't watch them (big long wait,
> watch half a second, big long wait, rinse, cycle, repeat).  And the
> sites with completely unsupported schemes, though that's another story.

Agreed. Some sites don't even support pausing the stream (i.e. the
stream player pauses but doesn't keep downloading, thus becoming
unwatchable on flaky networks as you say). Some NY Times streams seem to
be like this, though not most of them.

poc