How to save FlashPlayer video?

[Thomas Milne]

There's also Youtube-dl, which is a package available on Debian and I
would imagine others.

Haven't used it in awhile though.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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