Rip a video from flashplayer9 to Avi ?

frenchn00b · 09-15-2007, 06:37 AM

Hi,
I would like to download videos of ET:quake wars, http://www.enemyterritory.com/main.html and have them as Avi.
Is there any solutions ?

David the H. · 09-15-2007, 01:07 PM

Probably not, as this is all embedded flash content. There doesn't seem to be any way of getting an url for the video alone.

(I hate sites that are entirely written in flash. Idiots.)

osor · 09-16-2007, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by frenchn00b

Is there any solutions ?

Try something similar to what’s presented here. On my current machine the process is a little different (as firefox does not store Cached content in /tmp. Basically,

Go to website. Navigate to media, and then videos. Select a video you like.
Let the video play all the way through.
In a terminal, navigate to “~/.mozilla/firefox/blah.default/Cache” (where blah.default is probably the only directory there).
Since the filenames are hashed, they tell you very little, try to ascertain the file type with the command “file *” (where file figures out the filetype based on magic numbers and such).
Look for “Macromedia Flash Video” (this becomes much easier if you start out with a clean cache, and then browse directly to the site in question).
Make sure this is the video you want by playing it in something that understands flash-video (i.e., “mplayer filename”).
Copy the file to a temporary location and use a decent name (e.g., “etqw-trailer1.flv”).
Use ffmpeg or the like to convert from flv to avi.

There may be other ways to do steps 1 through 7, but they are usually difficult and time consuming to figure out (e.g., use gnash debugger, read intermediates, find url, wget url, etc.). If you want only these three movies, it doesn’t need to be so complicated.

almatic · 09-16-2007, 03:36 PM

you can also use a packet sniffer like wireshark to find out the url of the movies.