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tdhelder

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Originally posted by cobratwo:
hi i have been reading through this topic and found some interesting info. im not a wiz at this kinda stuff but tried out the things i could understand. i choose to do the only thing i could seem to do and that was to install Firefox and then install the video downloader so i could get some of the videos i wanted :O) but now it seems that someone got wise and did something to prevent video downloader from finding the url the video was comming from. videos i downloaded 3 days ago are now comming up as not a valid url :O(
im not asking for someone to do the work for me i enjoy working things out for myself but after all the time i put into finally getting these videos and then find out it no longer works and being faced with possibly having to start all over again im pulling out what little hair i have :O(
all i would like to know is if someone could check and see if its just me doing something wrong or if something was implemented to prevent Firefox video downloader from finding the correct url of this video...
here is the page im on that contains the video i want to copy

[url=http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=15716&comments=20][/url]

any comments would be very much appretiated THANK YOU

Using Firefox type into the url field "about:cache" this will return the location of the hard drive cache on your computer. browse over to this folder it should look something like this "C:\Documents and Settings\operator\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\muoawmzm.default\Cache"

Go to the listed video and when the video starts you will see an entry for it. "ctrl-r" will refresh the page. When the program has finished downloading, or when the grey bar has filled, copy and paste the resulting file to a new location. In your case it will be over a 100meg file. Rename it with a file extension of .flv and use flv player to play it. Or if you have macromedia flash you may embed it into a swf file.

Flv player is available from http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WE...LV-Player.shtml

It is free

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acevanti

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Hey everyone,

i've found a cool way to download any movie. What you need
1. WM Recorder 11.1 - demo version
2. Cocsoft Strem Download - buy it or some how make it full version ;)

open WM recorder, then load your streaming video, WM recorder will automatically find the videos url, and then copy and paste the url into cocsoft stream download and bob's my mothers, sisters, wifes, cousins auntie!

Hope this helps someone. It did for me on ninemsn.com.au

Ivva

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Can anyone please help?
I'm trying to grab bloopers from this page http://www.theocinsider.com/backstage/bloopers.html

I tried recording with screnvirtuoso (but the recording didn't have sound), i tried video download plugin...and it says: (ttp://www.theocinsider.com/video/bloopers/season04/401_01_sandwich.html[ http://www.theocinsider.com/../../FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf ] Right-click -> "Save Target As" OR copy and paste the link into your download manager.
)

it's not helping

there are 2 objects on the page, the second is embeded and it's named:
/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf

how can i grab that? please reply ASAP

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bismuth19

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Has anyone here tried URL helper?
Work well for me to download videos from daum.net

rc96

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Just joined the boards and a lot of info, I usually don't have problems downloading videos that are imbedded. But this one is stumping me with everything I can think of.

http://ntv.ca/videovault/

It's a "week in review" show but can't find where the file is. All it shows me is main.swf but that's the menu animation. Tried my tricks with Firefox and advice here but still stumping me.

Friend of mine is one of the anchors on the clip actually so trying to download the file. :) Thanks for any help.

Rob

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I have one that has stumped me.
It's a video of basketball great Wayne Estes.

http://www.nbcsports.com/sports/1122671/detail.html

The file that I found was called embedded.swf.

http://video.nbcuni.com/embed/player_1-2/embedded.swf

It's 137K and is full of this hexidecimal garbage.

I found the letters "SWF" in the middle of the file, but everything around them is undecipherable to me. It seems as if it's encrypted.

Here's an extract from where I found "SWF"

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Can anyone help me?

Furion

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Hello everyone i've been trying to get this movie off this site

http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/the_dying_room_player.html

But im unable to do so. And i've looked and the media tab in the page info, but all i can get are the adv .swf files. Can anyone help me with this? It's for a school project and would be very much appreciated! Thank you for your time.

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 05 Mar 2007 @ 23:34

jeane1976

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hi,
can someone help me to get the video from
http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=pHrE0XEnyh8$
??
i've tried to figure it out but nothing worked..
please help..
thanks

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Hey

I want to download some video for school, but I can't find how ...

This is what I've got this far ...

the video starts playing when you open [url=http://www.timvansteenbergen.com][/url], I've checked the page-info and found that it referred to /source/tvs2007.swf, I thought I found it and downloaded the file, but when I wanted to convert it, it would only show one frame (the framework around the actual video and not the video itself), the same thing happenend when I openend the downloaded .swf file in Firefox (or I.E. for that mather).

So I started looking further and that's when I've gotten to this site, when I read the explanation about the Zelda.swf it seemed to me that this was kind of the same thing, only that here the real video wasn't only hidden but embedded in the .swf file I downloaded ...

Anyway, I downloaded a Hex Converter and gave it a try, but I couldn't find anything I could use... I tried the same with the Zelda.swf to see if I got the same result as you did (and find out if I was doing anything wrong), and I did ... so now I'm absolutely clueless ...

I haven't got any idea about how and where I can find the actual video file itself ... if you can help me I would be (being a newbie, especially to this forum) very gratefull ...

Hopefully someone can help me
Thx

ps: my english isn't flawless, I'm aware of that, sorry :)

jincaxt

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Quote:
Using Firefox type into the url field "about:cache" this will return the location of the hard drive cache on your computer. browse over to this folder it should look something like this "C:\Documents and Settings\operator\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\muoawmzm.default\Cache"

Go to the listed video and when the video starts you will see an entry for it. "ctrl-r" will refresh the page. When the program has finished downloading, or when the grey bar has filled, copy and paste the resulting file to a new location. In your case it will be over a 100meg file. Rename it with a file extension of .flv and use flv player to play it. Or if you have macromedia flash you may embed it into a swf file.

Flv player is available from http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WE...LV-Player.shtml

It is free

Hi I tried this and it worked, thank you very much. but how can I stop Firefox from auto purging the cache file before I have time to copy and paste it?

EDIT: it also cuts off the end of the file...even though the file in the cache folder seems to have loaded completely.

I tried all sorts of embedded video downloaders but all it does is downloads a file called "FLVPlayer_Progressive".
Help would be very much appreciated :)

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 28 Mar 2007 @ 22:43

lecki

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hi guys. any luck with atomfilms.com yet?

dorae Suspended due non-functional email address

can someone help me how to download videos from daum?

http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayerOut.swf?vid=b48SBB-AqZc$

like this one..

thanks

Unoblemen

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Hi, I'm wondering if someone can help me get the video embbeded on the link in this post
thanks.
http://www.dohhhup.com/movie/x8B0INZDkGu...2ID8pA/view.php

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 07 Apr 2007 @ 17:37

jbilhouse Suspended due non-functional email address

Here's a link I am having problems pulling the swf file from. The file is a java window and can't pull the embedded .swf file associated with the file. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.swf...&autoStart=true

Trace_II

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I tried to download this
[url=http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm][/url]
but it didn't do anything.

Also, is there a simpler way do download linked flash without a hex editor?

Alchgr Suspended due non-functional email address

Ive been getting pretty darn good at extracting flv and swf from urls and downloading I have downloaded quite a few programs to assist me in doing this. my only problem is when i get stuck on one i wont give up and ive come across urls one such as this one [url=http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.swf?file=http://ll-previews.veoh.com/previews/get.jsp?fileHash=8244dcc3a55bfab982f6b152b85848f34423687a&autoStart=true][/url]

i know that there is embedded content associated with this and i know downloading it only reveals a file the size of 3.34 kb and from playing around with and it viewing [url=http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.swf][/url] both are the same when downloading. and from visiting this site it seems as if the put some type of code on the the file i dont really know the whole bolgna. i would to crack this one and move if anyone can give me any assitance it owuld greatly appreicated ill be checking back daily. thank you a. griffin

Elayne

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Okay, I have tried and tried and I must be missing something. Can some one please help me with this one. I do not have Firefox and really don't want it. I have been using a flashsaver and have been able to get everything else, even other videos from youtube, but not this one. Please help. Thank you.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

alvina Suspended due non-functional email address

hi. anybody have any idea how to download video off veoh.com? are the videos even swf files? thnx

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 15 Apr 2007 @ 13:16

moey007

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hi CiDaemon , i was reading your post on saving swf flash videos that are hidden in XML. i have tried the steps you mentioned but i still cant do it. can you please help me?
here is the link:
http://islamictube.net/view_video.php?vi...type=&category=

and here is a pic of the page info:

whats my next step?

thanks.

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Hello - I've been reading through this post and trying everything you've said, but I still can't get this video to download.
I'm hoping to download several of the videos listed on this page:
[url=http://www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/features/true_life/autism/][/url]

for my students in honor of Autism Awarness Month. I think they would like this one the best however:
[url=http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1554724&vid=138469][/url]

Is there anyway you can help me please?? I would greatly appreciate it!

surfgal

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hi CiDaemon or anyone else who can help-

After trying all the methods you mentioned, I still cannot download from the following link:

clip.swf?d2lv=0&al=0&ap=0&videopath=not_XL.swf&movieid=22"eid=1692&mquserid=register&score=5&userName=&avgscore=0&albondigas=ou812mofo187

from this site: http://www.killerclips.com/

Finally I was able to download the file, with flash capture, but it never gets past loading, says the file is protected.

I tried converting the file with SWF toolbox, but the file just says loading, no clip plays.

any ideas?

surfgal

dclipse99

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Sorry guys.

I've been trying the atomfilms.com site and the solution in the beginning; I can get everything, except I can't seem to find the embedded file anywhere? I can find the files for all the ads except the actual file. I was wondering if anyone could walk through the steps of an example site. One that I have been trying is...

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/pornographic_apathetic.jsp

Thanks a bunch guys.

maryjanel

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Can someone help get the link for the following Daum links? Greatly appreciated!

http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=Qs4mNBEn6Jw$
http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=YYfy6kJU2Rg$
http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=nALDmxoq-LQ$
http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=0Qp-3ZHlPao$
http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=nWPYMkYhIFw$
http://flvs.daum.net/flvPlayer.swf?vid=oqTnbP3cEsU$

maryjanel

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One more. This one too. Thanks so much!

http://www.la18.tv/Video.aspx?vid=887c8e...7f-d800c135b775

springf Suspended due non-functional email address

im trying to download this video...but can't find the source...can someone help me with this..thanks in advance

http://microsites.audi.com/audir8/html/index.php

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