Are there reliable plugins to capture Flash and similar streaming web video?
I'm sure this has been asked before a dozen times..but I could not the info I needed.
What I want to do: Capture and play back Web video, primarily embedded Flash but also whatever other formats are commonly embedded with the some quality as the stream (not a screen capture). There's typically not an option to right-click and save the file. I would use Firefox, Chrome or IE7 - it would be good to have something that works with IE since there as still a few sites that require it. Web chatter shows many programs and plugins to do this, often with comments that 'it doesn't work'. Those could be user error or an issue with the software. |
Yes, what you want can be done. I do it myself.
I want to preface this, however...
Funny enough, RMC usually has the video download finished before the video is done downloading or playing in the browser. The only time I've seen it fail is on those double-secret pay-per-view download sites, like MLB.TV or WWE. I'm not readily away of anything that is necessarily successful at downloading the for-pay content from some of those sports sites. RMC does work for the NHL site, if I'm not mistaken. It can be hit-or-miss. But for everything else, including both free-to-view and for-pay content, it's a real winner at grabbing the content you want to save. |
"I had spent unreasonable amounts of time ..."
Amen.. the hours wasted on computer fiddling... wish I could get those back! Does RMC save in the original file format of whatever was being downloaded? It sounds like it's _not_ doing screen capture , which is good. $100 is a bit much for the few videos I would watch though, is there a "lite" version? |
I've gone back and edited my previous post, as the cost I quoted was incorrected. The Replay Media Catcher is only $39.95 for the base software -- $99 if you want the "Suite" edition. I don't have the suite, I use the base version.
Files are saved in the true format. For example, an FLV wrapped in SWF will be saved as an FLV. Youtube FLV would be saved as FLV, MP4 as MP4, etc. |
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