[clue-tech] download video

Jed S. Baer cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net
Thu Nov 13 16:26:41 MST 2008


On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:20:48 -0700
Bob Meetin wrote:

> One of my clients has gotten a number of exposes (her investigators did 
> the work) posted on CNN, ABC Boston, CBS Chicago, etc.  CNN offers a 
> link to the video so that you can bring it into youtube, myspace, etc.  
> But these other guys make it more obscure.  View source was not overly 
> helpful to me.  I see the relevant code/section, but it's useless,
> can't grasp the .swf file. 

If the video you're wanting to save is on YouTube, you can just install
the youtube-dl package, and use that to grab it. Also, look for FireFox
extensions for saving embedded video.

jed


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