[Gllug] Ripping flash

[Nick Warrington]

John Edwards wrote:
> 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).
>
>
>   
The firefox plugin was the missing link for me. I used the
DownloadHelper from Indigen. That seems to do the trick, and I'll finish
up with ffmpeg. Terrific.

Many thanks John.

Nick
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