The right online flash video downloader?

Question

Adobe Flash

There is an unnamed site, not YouTube, from which I want to save the video being played. I tried to find a universal downloader by googling, but could not break through the crowd of greedy crooks offering their own creations through SEO.
Who can suggest a universal reliable and, if possible, free tool that downloads online flash videos from anywhere?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can try a bunch of Firefox + FlashGot or Firefox + ( VideoDownloadHelper

Answer 2

Not exactly a downloader, but it works. Start playing the video and wait for the full download. Then go to the cache folder of your browser and look for the file there by size / date and with the flv extension. The method is clumsy, but universal.

Answer 3

Firefox + VideoDownloadHelper is the simplest sane solution. He will find everything for you, and you click "download" in the format you like.

Answer 4

It seems to me that you will not find universal. In an extreme case, you will find a tool that supports a certain list of services, no more, because there is no one scheme for getting an address from a video from a flash, each developer does it in his own way and as it is more convenient for him.

Answer 5

Hmm... I usually look at the pid of the flash player, and then using file I check which files the flash has, after which I find the video and stupidly copy it from /proc/$PID/fd/$NUMBER.

Answer 6

Now it's fashionable to play rtmp in flash. It is well downloaded by Streamtransport (GUI) and rtmpdump (CLI).