Thread: Saving Flash Videos In Linux

Have you ever watched a video on Youtube or some other site that lets you view flash videos and then wanted to save a copy of the video to your hard drive so that you can watch it later,out but you then cannot because there is no download link? This can be done very easily because when you watch a video on any of those sites they save a temporary file on your computer of the video. So from there you will need to just find the file and rename it.

So the first thing you are going to want to do is go to the site with the video that you want to download. Once you are there you will have to wait for the video to fully load so that you will have all of the video when you make a copy of it later.



You Can Tell When The Video Is Fully Downloaded When The Light Red Bar Is At The End Of The Box

Now from here you will need to navigate to Filesystem/tmp. Now you will just need to find a file that has "flash" in the name of it. In my case it is FlashZv9s8f yours should be something similar. From here you will just need to copy and paste the file to where ever you want it and then rename it to whatever you want with the file extension .flv so in the end mine was "FlashZv9s8f.flv".



The Original Version And The Copied Version

To play the flash movies on your computer you can use VLC Player. In most versions of Linux you can find VLC pre-installed or in your package manager.

these FLV vedios don't play on every player. so better convert it.

to convert flash videos you can use ffmpeg.
Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg -- Ubuntu Geek

FLV videos work fine for me with VLC Media Player..

S***t why did it never occur to me

I was always trying to figure out how to save these videos

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Post no 2

It did nt work

It said that i could nt copy the temporary folder as firefox was using it ...

when i closed firefox the folder vanished

You can use www.clipnabber.com for downloading videos from online video sharing sites. Copy and Paste the video url and click the Nab Video button. And it will give the direct link to the .flv video file. For Youtube you can also get the .mp4 video link. This works with almost all video sharing sites and Operating Systems.

There are also many Greasemonkey scripts available for this from www.userscripts.org. One of them is Online Video Stripper.

And if you need to download the video in a different format. There is www.mediaconverter.org. It only supports a few video sharing sites.
The quality & features are low for free version.

Zamzar - Free online file conversion is also worth a try for free online file conversions!!

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

Zamzar - Free online file conversion is also worth a try for free online file conversions!!

Not worth!
as you have to upload uncompressed files(which are very huge) and then download them.

I use mencoder + cron, so that videos are automactically picked from a folder at night time, when PC is not running under load. after that they converted and copied to another folder. everythig is scripted

So i just have drop the video to be converted a specififed folder only, rest gets done on this own

Originally Posted by Gary4gar

Not worth!
as you have to upload uncompressed files(which are very huge) and then download them.

I use mencoder + cron, so that videos are automactically picked from a folder at night time, when PC is not running under load. after that they converted and copied to another folder. everythig is scripted

So i just have drop the video to be converted a specififed folder only, rest gets done on this own

True, but i have used the mentioned website for converting youtube videos only. Will checkout the procedure posted by u too

Originally Posted by Gary4gar

Not worth!
as you have to upload uncompressed files(which are very huge) and then download them.

I use mencoder + cron, so that videos are automactically picked from a folder at night time, when PC is not running under load. after that they converted and copied to another folder. everythig is scripted

So i just have drop the video to be converted a specififed folder only, rest gets done on this own

Can it save flash videos from online video sharing websites ?

Originally Posted by Archer

Can it save flash videos from online video sharing websites ?

Yes it can be used to save video files. They will email the file to the address provided

Originally Posted by Archer

Can it save flash videos from online video sharing websites ?

Yes, there are plenty of method available, i suggest Video DownloadHelper extension for firefox.


for really simply way, try add "pwn" to URL: example:

Original video link:

Code:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ikio2L3-eZY

New download link'

Code:

http://pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=Ikio2L3-eZY

And here is the URL for the lazy ones amongst u PWN! YouTube - How to download videos from YouTube for fair rights use

Just download videodownloadhelper ...an add-on for firefox