capturing an swf stream from the web?

[Mark Lane]

Here's the link to the flv file.

http://goingtoschool.com/Be!Animation_English.flv

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:47 -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:37 AM, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > > Matt Price wrote:
> > >>
> > >> thanks for htis, john.  unfortunately, with the particular flash
> animation
> > >> i mention here, I
> > >> can't seem to get this to work.  Automatic conversion fails silently,
> > >> while manual conversion fails with a not-so-helpful error message
> > >> ("conversion failed").  do you have any idea what i might be able to
> do
> > >> to improve the outcome?  if you try this file on your system, does the
> > >> download succeed?  knowing that it does would be a pretty big help.
> > >> Anyway, thanks again for your assistance.
> > >>
> > >> matt
> > >
> > > It works fine with Mepis 8. However that it failed for you may be due
> to the
> > > fact that the standard Debian ffmpeg package has most of the
> transcoding
> > > capabilities crippled due to patent problems in the U.S. I use the
> ffmpeg
> > > package that is available from the Mepis community restricted repos
> which is
> > > located outside of the U.S. Mepis 8 is heavily based on Lenny so it may
> work
> > > for you as well (if you are using Debian, Mepis, or Sidux).
> > >
> > > Restricted repo : deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/mepis8cr
> > > restricted restricted-non-free
> > >
> >
> > For Debian see http://debian-multimedia.org/
> >
> > Pretty sure there's nothing that their ffmpeg package can't handle :-)
> >
> irritatingly, I haven't been able to get this working on ubuntu karmic,
> which is what most of my computers are running right now.  The
> debian-multimedia packages land me in dependency hell, and compiling my
> own ffmpeg isn't doing the trick.  ghashin of teeth!  fortunately (but a
> little humiliatingly) my wife's vista machine handled it without any
> problems.
>
> It's just possible that this is some kind of an interaction between
> downloadhelper and recent firefoxes -- is anyone else using a recent
> firefox?
>
> thanks though for all the help, i'm sure i'll get it sorted at some
> point.
>
> matt
>
>
>
> --
> Matt Price
> matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
>



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Mark Lane <lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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