Capturing flash movies

bogzab · 07-08-2011, 03:21 PM

Google returns loads of programs and plugins for capturing flash. Nearly all Windows and MacOS. Anybody know a good one for Linux, preferably playing nicely on Slackware...

slackass · 07-08-2011, 03:26 PM

Firefox/DownloadHelper

TobiSGD · 07-08-2011, 03:30 PM

Or simply copy them out of your cache.

rokytnji · 07-08-2011, 03:32 PM

I use http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

Code:

$ cclive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouf2-1-yWF4
Checking ... ......... ........done.
Earth Wind Fire Serpentine Fire Video clip.flv  8.26M  [video/x-flv]
[###############################################]  100%  8.3M  56.4K/s  00:02:30

bogzab · 07-08-2011, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Or simply copy them out of your cache.

Yes, I saw a a note somebody put up which said you could retrieve them from /tmp as long as your browser session was live, but I think that no longer works - presumably the flash player plugin now deletes or stores elsewhere. The cache you refer to is presumably somewhere in ~/.mozilla ?

TobiSGD · 07-08-2011, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bogzab

Yes, I saw a a note somebody put up which said you could retrieve them from /tmp as long as your browser session was live, but I think that no longer works - presumably the flash player plugin now deletes or stores elsewhere. The cache you refer to is presumably somewhere in ~/.mozilla ?

You are right, I mixed that up, the mplayer-plugin will cache to /tmp. I searched where the Flashplayer caches the media, but I couldn't find it.

bogzab · 07-08-2011, 04:19 PM

Quote:

I use http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

This one looks really good - if you know the precise URL with the parameters that launches your video. The site that I am looking at (ITV - a British TV news programme) hides this and the page source is full of pretty obscure javascript. I will use this for UTube though - looks really simple and quick. Thanks

Konphine · 07-08-2011, 05:17 PM

VLC Media Player is what I use, and it comes with the .txz on it's page.

speck · 07-08-2011, 08:16 PM

I use youtube-dl if the web link is available.

If I watch a video and it's not in /tmp, I use the following script (not mine) to search for it and save it to the /tmp directory.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

DIR="/tmp"

VIDS=`lsof -n -P | grep FlashXX | awk '{ print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" substr($4, 1, length($4)-1) }'`

for VID in $VIDS
do
    DATE=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
    echo "$DIR/${DATE}.flv"
    cp -ip $VID $DIR/${DATE}.flv
    sleep 2
done

kingbeowulf · 07-08-2011, 10:59 PM

DownloadHelper and Flashgot addons for Firefox (using v5 x86_64) work. Downloadhelper will reencode on the fly if you have the codecs installed. The two will get 99% of flash videos out there, YMMV.

psionl0 · 07-09-2011, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

I use http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

Code:

$ cclive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouf2-1-yWF4
Checking ... ......... ........done.
Earth Wind Fire Serpentine Fire Video clip.flv  8.26M  [video/x-flv]
[###############################################]  100%  8.3M  56.4K/s  00:02:30

This is what I get when I use cclive:

Code:

$ cclive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouf2-1-yWF4
fetch config ...done.
verify video link ...error: libquvi: server returned http/404

rokytnji · 07-09-2011, 02:13 AM

Quote:

error: libquvi: server returned http/404

libquvi is a dependency 0f cclive. In case you did not install it.

andrew.46 · 07-09-2011, 02:26 AM

A nice one is get-flash-videos:

http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/

Just needs WWW::Mechanize to run nicely under Slackware

psionl0 · 07-09-2011, 02:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

libquvi is a dependency 0f cclive. In case you did not install it.

cclive wouldn't compile/run without libqvi. I think the error message is coming from libqvi.

veeall · 07-09-2011, 04:36 AM

For opera i use extendtube extension, which adds download button into youtube webpage. There are other extensions which do the same, too.
Umplayer, the continuation of smplayer, is able to search, play and record youtube videos.

+1 to commandline downloaders mentioned earlier.