trying to decompile this flash video

[kcaJoC]

hi, was looking at a url given below and i wanted to save this video to my computer before it's taken off site. was hoping someone could point me in the right direction in learning how i could do this or just briefly hold my hand for a second and tell me what it is i need to do? thanks a lot to those replying.

http://thefitshow.com/week3/milos_chest_med.htm

[DarrellS]

Try this...

http://forum.athletes.com/fitshow/week3/milos_chest_med.flv

[kcaJoC]

thanks. someone had already done that for me earlier prior to posting.

i wanted to learn how he did it..was unable to get a hold of him though. so what's the trick please?

[DarrellS]

I use a program called URLSnooper2.

Open the program and set it to advanced mode. Click the Sniff Network button and open the link to the file. Once the file starts to play, URLSpooper2 will defect where the file is stored and then you highlight the file, right click and choose play this file on the computer. The Windows download thingymajig will pop up and ask you where you want to download the file.

I just downloaded another program called Orbit that will download media on webpages. Just move your mouse over the movie and an icon called GetIt will pop up and prompt you to refresh the page and it will show the file in a download window. Just put a check next to the file and click download.

[Stiiv]

You can also try KeepVid.com. Paste the URL of the file you want into the box, click "download", right-click the link generated from the URL, & save the file with an 'flv' extension.

[DarrellS]

You can also try KeepVid.com.

I tell ya, I can hardly ever get this option to work. Most of the time, all I get is the address that I just gave it and a message to please try again.

I tried the Orbit option earlier today and it downloaded a SWF file instead of the FLV file and although I was able to decompress it and remove the protection, I was unable to watch it with anything but Irfanview and I couldn't convert the file to anything else that I could view.

I ended up using URLSnooper2 to get the FLV file which will play in all the flash players and can easily be converted to AVI it desired.

EDIT: I tried the Orbit option again and for some reason when I refreshed the page before, it didn't give me the FLV download link. This time it did so I guess it does work after all. The Keepvid option still did not work though. It will download the file from the link that I found for him if you right click like you said but not from the link that the movie plays from. That's what he wanted to know. Sometimes you can find the address in the source file but usually the file is played from an encrypted script. It's easier just to use the programs above to find the hidden link.