Saturday, June 14, 2008

How to save flash movie (e.g. from 24ur.com)

- use Firefox
- add "Live HTTP headers" add-on to Firefox
- optional: close all other firefox tabs/windows
- open "Live HTTP headers" (in "Tools" menu)
- be sure that "Capture" checkbox is checked
- switch to Firefox windows, navigate to the web page - www.poptv.si, and choose the video you'd like to watch
- wait until the video starts
- switch to "Live HTTP headers" window
- in "HTTP headers" window scroll a little bit up, until you find something similar like
http://streamflv.24ur.com/oddaje/pop//trenja/fe6564dd89_60151287-2.flv



- that's the URL (direct link) of the flash movie (see the extension .flv)
- copy this URL (right click -> copy)
- in Firefox open a new tab/window, paste into the address line, and press enter/go
- you should get a prompt, what to do with this file. Choose "Save to disk".

You can watch .flt type movies with e.g. GOM player.

Added 2008/12/10: Or you can use Video Download Helper :-)