Saving Flash

Marcel Rieux m.z.rieux at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 20:05:22 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 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.

I had a stream at PBS stutter then stop dead in its tracks 10 minutes
before the end. Sometimes, somewhere else, just changing the screen
size killed the video.

That's a reason why I want to save important videos that I might want
to watch again. The other being that they might someday disappear from
the site.

OTOH, I find The Warning, Inside the Meltdown and Breaking the Bank to
be top of the top class documentaries and I'd like to contribute a few
dollars. But I really don't believe in giving away my credit card
number on the net. I only use my credit card to pay my ISP. I'm old
fashion, I suppose.

Do you people use your credit card on the net?




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