How to save FlashPlayer video?

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Slightly off topic...
> Episodes of TV dramas are available on website as FlashPlayer video.  In
> order to save bandwidth and to keep my own collection of the shows, I
> would like to save them to disk first, and then play later.
>
> How do you save flashplayer video for later viewing?  Is it possible at
> all?

There has been a bit of an arms race surrounding this sort of thing...

There are web extensions such as the following one for Firefox:
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/

I have seen some indication that operators of web sites that publish
such try to "spike" these sorts of tools, hence the "arms race."  A
particular tool may or may not work next week...
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