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Capturing flash video from the source?

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to grab flash video sources from sites like disneymoviesanywhere?

Regular programs like videodownloadhelper don't work and there are some extras that they're adding which aren't on the physical discs.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Well, if you can watch them on a device with HDMI output, then you can capture the digital HDMI stream without loss.

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I used to have good luck using Replay Media Capture to grab flash video from sites that were tricky or too obscure to have functionality built into many of the web based downloaders.

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Just a couple of suggestions to add...

The combination of Coojah and Blader has worked well for me with a number of sites where I was then able to FFMPEG the captured .flv into an MP4 or MKV.

http://www.hensence.com/en/coojah/download.htm

RTMPDumpHelper, updated with the KSV 2.4 or 2.5 package enabled me to capture videos from a variety of sites, including, in the past, Hulu. 

http://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/releases

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/rtmp_dump_helper.html

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Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll have to try them out.

I know Disney just created their own app so I might just have to use that and would probably be the easiest. But...jeez...

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I tried to use some of the programs that you guys suggested but, unfortunately, because Disney makes you sign in to view the videos, it doesn't let you grab them from the typical programs. Any other suggestions?

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JayArgonaut said:


GetFLV?

http://www.getflv.net/index.html


I played around it a bit. Most of the Kernels make you "open in the app." I can get to the video "frame" with the Chrome kernel but the video won't play. I dunno if that's because of flash or what. :(

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digitalfreaknyc said:

I tried to use some of the programs that you guys suggested but, unfortunately, because Disney makes you sign in to view the videos, it doesn't let you grab them from the typical programs. Any other suggestions?

 You tried the app I mentioned? From what I recall, it grabbed things from Chrome. I know I used it with Youtube videos that I paid for (that had several extra layers of security compared to the standard free youtube videos).