Does anyone know how to capture Flash 10 video clips?

With older versions of Flash the clips could be found in the Firefox cache file and just copied over but with Flash 10 this does not work becuase either there is no cache file or else it is located somewhere else.

Thanks

have you seen youtube-dl?
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home

There are several plugins for Firefox that let you do this. DownloadHelper and Flash Video Resources Downloader are two that jump to mind.

I just go to /tmp and cp (or mv) the file with Flash in it's name to some place more permanent (at the same time renaming it to semehting more useful) before it disappears

Sample Video I am trying to download: http://artistsnetwork.tv/preview.aspx?productID=221

youtube-dl gives an invalid url error message.
DownLoad Helper does nothing
Unplug finds only the .swf media player not the video
I installed FFlash Video Resources Downloader plugin but cannot figure how to start it.

There is no video cache file in either /tmp of Firefox cache

Ideas????

flvstreamer (or rtmpdump(*)) will do it. The trick is finding the url of the video to give to flvstreamer.

From using Live HTTP Headers it's possible to see that Firefox is requesting the url http://artistsnetwork.tv/artistsnetw...a.aspx?pid=221. Request that url and you get the url of the actual video.


Of course making copies of copyrighted media without the content of the copyright holder may be illegal in whatever country you happen to reside in so you should of course ensure that you have permission etc.


(*) flvstreamer is a fork of rtmpdump without that bit(s) which caused sites hosting it to be hit with a DMCA notice or some such thing. rtmpdump probably isn't in your distro's repos, but flvstreamer probably is. rtmpdump is still freely available from non-US based hosting locatable via Google.

The video is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOFj-1ElwMU

I found that by using
Then did a search on youtube for artistnetwork
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...work+tv&aq=0sx

I use cclive to download .flv videos from the web with this FreeBSD box.

Use whatever you like to download the you tube video.

Got rtmpdump from Debian repositories (I'm using Ubuntu) & it works.

Takes a bit of figuring to work out the syntax to get it to work...the "help" is pretty brief and doesn't make it clear that the url must be in quotes.

ie This works: This just creates an empty file:
Thanks arizonagroovejet.

..and yes I'm aware of the legalities of copying stuff but I needed an example to work with.

That's because it doesn't have to be in quotes. The url you're dealing with contains spaces, that's why you need to enclose it in quotes. If the url didn't contain spaces, or characters the shell interprets as having special meaning (e.g. &), then quotes wouldn't be needed. This is a fairly basic concept of working in a *nix shell, it's not unique to rtmpdump.

E.g. This creates two files, one called hello and one called world.

This creates one file called 'hello world'

If you wanted to copy that file called 'hello world' you need to use
or


This is why anyone who regularly works on *nix system command lines generally avoids creating filenames, or indeed urls, that contain spaces. In practice I wouldn't create a file called 'hello world' I'd call it hello_world. I'd also never create a file that contained an & in it's filename. In my experience people who only ever use an OS with a GUI and never touch a command line will create files and directories (which they'll insist on calling folders) with names that contain spaces and pretty much anything else their OS will let them. They also won't enclode any of those names containing spaces in quotes when they email you, which can lead to confusion as to what exactly they're refering to. But that's another story

Never thought to check for that!
So then this should work:
...and it does!

Thanks