A program is running macromedia flash , is there any way I can save the pictures, and/or vidoes that are coming up? I’ve tried asking explorer to save the entire webpage, but the pic files are not coming up. Any other backroads?
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- pointing to the page but not the Flash plugin and right-clicking to “view source”, and that will have the directory and filename of the Flash (.swf) file [and then try entering that into the address of your browser and then doing a “save as”], or,
- just erase the name of the page itself off the end of the address, and it might give you a listing of whatever’s in the same directory (most normal people will put the movie in the same place as the webpage), but…
- if they are using an active server, you can’t do either of those two things because the Flash movie can only be downloaded by the intended page. So then you need a program that will do a continuous screen-capture of your own computer, and then you save the entire compuer screen as another movie type as the Flash file is playing.
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What I do is copy the SWF file from “Temporary Internet Files” to the desktop.
Once you have the .SWF file (using one of the above methods, for example) you can sometimes extract still images (.JPG/.PNG formats) using a tool like SWFExtract.
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- Yea, that can work too. But I have seen a few places where it wouldn’t, and apparently the way they had it set up: there was an “invisible” parent movie (just a blank frame) that called a pair of child movies repeatedly, and the child movies only had two different names, and alternated. And the server gave you the right one when you needed it. So the invisible parent movie basically said: “request file1.swf”, and near the end of file1.swf, it would “request file2.swf”, and then near the end of the second file, it would “request file1.swf” again—>but the server knew not to re-send the first segment. It would send the third, named the same as the first, so the movie played through as you’d expect. Most of the way through the third segment, it would again request the second segment–but the server knew to send the fourth part. So it stepped this way through the entire movie, using only two filenames–so if you saved it, all you got was about one minute of a 15-minute movie.
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- Yea, that can work too. But I have seen a few places where it wouldn’t, and apparently the way they had it set up: there was an “invisible” parent movie (just a blank frame) that called a pair of child movies repeatedly, and the child movies only had two different names, and alternated. And the server gave you the right one when you needed it. So the invisible parent movie basically said: “request file1.swf”, and near the end of file1.swf, it would “request file2.swf”, and then near the end of the second file, it would “request file1.swf” again—>but the server knew not to re-send the first segment. It would send the third, named the same as the first, so the movie played through as you’d expect. Most of the way through the third segment, it would again request the second segment–but the server knew to send the fourth part. So it stepped this way through the entire movie, using only two filenames–so if you saved it, all you got was about one minute of a 15-minute movie.
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- I saw this Flash movie on a BBC site that had a anime-style movie they played another episode of every week–and someone on a tech board asked how to save it, and this was what was found to be the method that they were using to send it. It’s possible to save it all, but you have to view the movie a BUNCH of times, stopping it every 15-30 seconds each time, saving and naming differently all the little .swf Temporary Internet Files, and then you need a Flash creation tool like Macromdia or LiveMotion, to create another Flash parent movie–>to call all the littlte pieces in order. Because they are all separate pieces, you can view each one by itself, but they will not automatically run from one to the next.
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If your system is up to the challenge, you could just set Camtasia to record your browser window and capture it on the fly as it plays. This is not a solution for the RAM and/or processor challenged.