Downloading flash movies from any source! [closed]

i was wondering if its possible? There are many extensions to firefox which help you to download vides from e.g; youtube etc but there are many websites which offer video training tutorials etc e.g; lynda and vtc. How you can download videos from them?

Solution 1:

There isn't any general method. Youtube keeps changing its model to prevent downloads, and other site probably do the same. Flash videos are often more easily grabbed under linux : the flv file is simply downloaded to /tmp.

Edit 2014: this was true using Flash player 9 (and older). Unfortunately, since Flash Player 10 the video file is still created in /tmp, but immediately removed. It's therefore invisible and tricky to copy; you may want to try searching for open but deleted files using lsof and restore it from /proc as described here.

Solution 2:

Tamper Data is great for that sort of thing, you can pretty much look at every request the browser is making including the FLV. I use this to download videos from any site and it works a charm each time.

Solution 3:

The DownloadHelper plugin lets you do that.