{"id":226,"date":"2010-10-12T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2010-10-12T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:36:13","slug":"downloading-flash-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Downloading flash video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to download flash video.  <\/p>\n<p>Try the UnPlug Firefox extension first.  If it works it is the easy way.  <\/p>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t work, here&#8217;s a way of downloading flash video. <\/p>\n<p>1) Install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wireshark.org\/\">tshark<\/a>, a network monitoring tool. <\/p>\n<p>2) Run tshark from a command line:<code><br \/>\ntshark -e http.host -e http.request.uri -T fields tcp port 80 > sites.txt<\/code><\/p>\n<p>3) Load or reload the web page with the flash, let the video start to play.  Then you can stop tshark.<br \/>\n tshark logs all the files that get called to load the web page.  <\/p>\n<p>4) Look in the sites.txt file.  Search for files with the .flv extension:<br \/>\n<code>flash.video.worldnow.co \/wand\/WAND_20101010210218823AB.flv<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Put together the web site and file path like so (the &#8216;m&#8217; in com was cut off):<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-226-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"http:\/\/flash.video.worldnow.com\/wand\/WAND_20101010210218823AB.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/flash.video.worldnow.com\/wand\/WAND_20101010210218823AB.flv\">http:\/\/flash.video.worldnow.com\/wand\/WAND_20101010210218823AB.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>5) Download this file.  I use wget:<br \/>\n<code>wget http:\/\/flash.video.worldnow.com\/wand\/WAND_20101010210218823AB.flv<\/code><\/p>\n<p>6) The file can be viewed with a flash video player (like VLC) or converted to .avi with <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">ffmpeg<\/a>:<br \/>\n<code>ffmpeg -i WAND_20101010210218823AB.flv video_file.avi<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to download flash video. Try the UnPlug Firefox extension first. If it works it is the easy way. If that doesn&#8217;t work, here&#8217;s a way of downloading flash video. 1) Install tshark, a network monitoring tool. 2) Run tshark from a command line: tshark -e http.host -e http.request.uri -T fields tcp port 80 > [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}