Streaming flash to local harddisk

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 12:21 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I frequently get to webpages, where there are flash "films"
> that my flash plugin in Firefox nicely displays. 
> 
> However, frequently, I would like to store these files on my
> local harddisk to refer to them later.
> 
> It is of course trivial to download and  store files that are
> called filexyz.swf. 
> 
> But some are slightly more tricky.
> 
> You can see an example for illustration here:
> http://tinyurl.com/qdopb
> 
> What could I do to make this tutorial available on the local
> disk?
> 
> I tried long and hard to google for things like 
> +linux +flash +stream to local disk" but anything that I got was
> either (potentially) working for windows or not helpfull.
> 
> Maybe my english is not up to the task. Anyway I hope the
> example illustrates what I like to achieve.
> 
> I would appreciate any ideas.
> 
> (K)Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.1 on i686 with firefox 1.5.06 and
> macromedia flashplugin 7.0 
> Btw.: exactly the same happens with the windows version of
> firefox 1.5.06 with flashplugin 9.0, used under wine
> 
> Thanks and best regards
> Eberhard
> 

Have a look at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
it should do what you want