How to save FlashPlayer video?

[John Myshrall]

On 10/12/10 16:39, Kevin Cozens 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.

We use download helper when downloading flash videos for the kids 
homework and then use WinFF to covert it to a suitable format. Works great.

John
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