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Capture SWF Flash Files

Postby asjones » 19 Sep 2008 04:33

I am having trouble using VLC to capture SWF flash files. It was my understanding the new VLC 0.9.2 could do this and I have tried the various settins under Media -> Open Network and can't get things going.

Is this not possible or what are the best settings or things I could be doing wrong.

I tried pulling the URL from the info below but could not get the right stuff.

I am not after this video but it is a decent sample

the video is on this page
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/sto ... 65&catid=2

the video's Embed information is:

<object classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... on=9,0,0,0' width='320' height='305' id='embeddedplayer'><param name='movie' value='http://gannett.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/ ... f'/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'/><param name='scale' value='noscale'/><param name='salign' value='LT'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#000000'/><param name='wmode' value='window'/><param name='FlashVars' value='playerId=articleplayer&referralObject=860219943&referralPlaylistId=playlist&adServerBasePath=http://gcirm.gannett-tv.gcion.com/RealM ... ame=Little Rock&division=broadcast&pageContentCategory=articleplayer&pageContentSubcategory=articleplayer'/><embed type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://gannett.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/ ... bedded.swf' id='embeddedplayer' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' menu='false' quality='high' play='false' name='articleplayer' height='305' width='320' allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' scale='noscale' salign='LT' bgcolor='#000000' wmode='window' flashvars='playerId=articleplayer&referralObject=860219943&referralPlaylistId=playlist&adServerBasePath=http://gcirm.gannett-tv.gcion.com/RealM ... ame=Little Rock&division=broadcast&pageContentCategory=articleplayer&pageContentSubcategory=articleplayer'' /></object>


thanks for your help.

Alan

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Re: Capture SWF Flash Files

Postby sdiener » 19 Sep 2008 17:59

I went to the page and see that you must have solved your problem -- video worked well.

I am curious what you are using as the player on the page -- I am looking for a similar player, a shockwave player where a user needs to click on the image to launch the playing of flash video.

Can you tell me what you used?

If anyone else has suggestions, please let me know.

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Re: Capture SWF Flash Files

Postby VLC_help » 19 Sep 2008 18:59

AFAIK VLC doesn't support SWF, only FLV videos that some SWF players play.

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Re: Capture SWF Flash Files

Postby asjones » 20 Sep 2008 04:49

I did not solve the problem I was trying to capture what was already there.... not sure what player they are using.

I went to the page and see that you must have solved your problem -- video worked well.

I am curious what you are using as the player on the page -- I am looking for a similar player, a shockwave player where a user needs to click on the image to launch the playing of flash video.

Can you tell me what you used?

If anyone else has suggestions, please let me know.

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Re: Capture SWF Flash Files

Postby asjones » 20 Sep 2008 04:50

Wow, i figured it would support SWF videos... hmmm

thanks for the info.

any other ideas to capture this type of stuff?
AFAIK VLC doesn't support SWF, only FLV videos that some SWF players play.

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Re: Capture SWF Flash Files

Postby VLC_help » 20 Sep 2008 18:11

If you have Flash debugging skills or you know how to use wireshark, you can sniff out the video URL the embedded.swf opens. When you know the URL, you can use wget or any other downloading program to download that file.


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