saving a streaming flash movie

linuxhippy · 10-15-2007, 04:32 AM

I want to save a streaming flash movie and cannot find the location that streams it. Could I save the data that's being sent (I think it's flash) to a file that mplayer can open?

aus9 · 10-15-2007, 04:48 AM

its in your web browser cache probably
/home/yourname/. (dot = hidden file) webbrowser name eg mozilla or opera/cache

linuxhippy · 10-15-2007, 05:05 AM

I have 2 directories in ~/.mozilla/firefox with cache directories:

kq5pulrn.default
za45zmg6.default

The files in both directories are from a couple months ago. How do I find out where today's files are being cached in firefox?

tommcd · 10-15-2007, 05:55 AM

There are Firefox addons that can download flash videos. Here is one of them:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
There may be others also.

linuxhippy · 10-15-2007, 06:47 AM

The video downloader extension usually works on other videos I want to save, but not this one. Here's the link of part 1 of the movie:

http://www.rbc.org/radio_and_tv/day_...ery/56796.aspx

H_TeXMeX_H · 10-15-2007, 12:54 PM

Try this:

Go into your '/tmp' directory, then open the 'streaming' flash video. You should see a 'Flash??????' where the ? is just a random number or letter. When the stream is finished copy the flash file somewhere else and retitle it. That's your flash file.

Don't know if this works for all cases, but this saves me from having the buggy and sometimes worthless VideoDownloader extension.

linuxhippy · 10-15-2007, 07:56 PM

Well, I tried download helper and got empty or 3.1 kb flv files. When I first opened /tmp and then started the video I didn't have a flash file or folder created. Maybe it's not flash?? Here's the link again:

http://www.rbc.org/radio_and_tv/day_...ry/56796.aspx#

tommcd · 10-15-2007, 11:35 PM

The video is flash. Ir you right-click on it while it's playing you see the flash options dialog box. I don't get it in my tmp or home directory either. I think a lot of websites use flash so you can't download their videos.

Alien_Hominid · 10-16-2007, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommcd

The video is flash. Ir you right-click on it while it's playing you see the flash options dialog box. I don't get it in my tmp or home directory either. I think a lot of websites use flash so you can't download their videos.

The main concept of browsers is that you see only what you have already downloaded (either flash or any other file type). Same goes for streaming.

Alien_Hominid · 10-16-2007, 01:45 AM

Ok. I looked at it. At http://rbc.gospelcom.net/flashplayer/videoplayer.swf is a player which gets the stream data from http://rbc.edgeboss.net/flash/rbc/dod/programs/2045.flv where the stream comes from cp37423.edgefcs.net/ondemand/flash/dc/84/dc848f2ec1b3a9bdb5f0af83dcde7229-46e5677e. So actually you don't need to save stream (videoplayer.swf does it), but to look at the cache where videoplayer.swf made and browser cached swf file lies.

linuxhippy · 10-16-2007, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien_Hominid

Ok. I looked at it. At http://rbc.gospelcom.net/flashplayer/videoplayer.swf is a player which gets the stream data from http://rbc.edgeboss.net/flash/rbc/dod/programs/2045.flv where the stream comes from cp37423.edgefcs.net/flash/dc/84/dc848f2ec1b3a9bdb5f0af83dcde7229-46e5677e. So actually you don't need to save stream (videoplayer.swf does it), but to look at the cache where videoplayer.swf made and browser cached swf file lies.

So what would I put into wget to download this?

Alien_Hominid · 10-16-2007, 06:42 AM

Don't need to wget. Check your cache after watching the movie.

aus9 · 10-16-2007, 07:08 AM

if you still having trouble with which cache? you could always open a terminal and use the find or locate command

eg
su (or sudo to get root powers)
find /home -name *.swf

2) if not found, make it / instead of /home

Alien_Hominid · 10-16-2007, 07:39 AM

http://all-streaming-media.com/recor...ware.htm#recmp

linuxhippy · 10-16-2007, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien_Hominid

Don't need to wget. Check your cache after watching the movie.

What file do I search my computer for? I looked for 2 files and found nothing resembling a huge file. I searched for:

*.swf
and
dc848f2ec1b3a9bdb5f0af83dcde7229-46e5677e