[Gllug] Ripping flash

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:25:09AM +0100, Nick Warrington wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Does anyone know of a mechanism for ripping flash video to mpeg. I'm
> trying to save some flash movies from YouTube for my old man. I thought
> I might be able to do it with mplayer but I can't find anything in the docs.

It really depends on what codecs that video uses. The most 
common are flv video and mp3 audio, in which case something 
like ffmpeg can convert it:
	http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/

Oh, that does assume you have downloaded the video as a flv 
file using a firefox plugin (there are several).


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