How to save FlashPlayer video?

[Kevin Cozens]

William Park wrote:
> How do you save flashplayer video for later viewing?  Is it possible at
> all?

It is possible to save the video files. There are several ways to do this. 
Download Helper is a Firefox plug-in which can help. However, it doesn't 
always maintain proper sync between audio and video after it has saved and 
converted the file to an avi.

Some flash videos will only play properly using the viewer on the page for 
the video. Watching a saved copy of the video results in color shifting or 
other video artifacts. This is probably because they don't want you saving 
the video.

The gmplayer program can usually play the original .flv files without 
problems. When using Firefox, the easy way to save the Flash video being 
downloaded by the flash player embedded in the webpage is to wait until the 
web page player indicates the video has fully buffered on your local 
computer then just copy and rename the file with the name /tmp/Flash... to 
some other directory.

A bit of work with Google can turn up AVI or DIVX video files that may have 
  better quality than a Flash based video.
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