How to convert Macromedia flash video?

[peggypwr1]

Hello, many websites are now using Macromedia flash video.

1)How does one save the file to the harddrive? and

2)what tools are there to convert them into avi files?

Thnaks for your time.

[BJ_M]

there are many types of flash and flv files - using different codecs .

with embedded and hidden movies and streams ...

how to save it depends on the way it is on the web page - though sothink swf grabber does a good job along w/ their decompiler to find the actual file ....

some (newer) swf files are very difficult to convert to avi - at this point .. otherwise do a google search for swf to avi programs -- there are tons of them

[throwingks]

You can also use hypercam and do a screen capture. To make it work make sure you disable hardware acceleration in video properties.

[Cunhambebe]

My suggestion:
-Start your browser, (my one is in Brazilian Portuguese, so I'll try to guess how they name the options in English), go to the menu bar, Internet options. On the General Guide, go to Temporary Internet Files and choose show files. There you'll certainly find your SWF file. Copy+Paste on the directory you want.
-There's a nice application called MagicSwf2Avi that seems to do a great job (but it's not freeware). Try to configure the application to capture the video at 24 fps - you must choose a Codec too (or just use uncompressed). Start the application, browse for the SWF file and hit convert! Then you'll get a huge AVI file with sound. You can use then any Video Editor and serve it from its timeline to render as MPEG2 (if that's what you want) with TMPGEnc. Render it as NTSC Film at 23,976 with Pulldown. Most of the time it works and results are great!
PS: if you use Sony Vegas, you can frameserve form its timeline to render the video file with TMPGEnc that anyway does a better job than Vegas' MainConcept built-in encoder. Then back to Vegas, you can render the audio file as AC-3. Use both files to author you DVD, for instance