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Galvonaut
I've just managed to download that ok using Flash and Video download v1.37 (firefox add-on).
Thanks Keith
I fired up my old Win XP laptop and downloaded Mozilla and the video download plugin, not sure it's the correct plugin though as it has a different version number. Do you have a URL or a better description for the plugin?
I tried the Firefox plugin (as above) and all it does is copy the advert at the beginning of the Blondie video.
Doc: Thanks for the tip, but it's a lot of messing about, much better if I can do it successfully via a plugin or similar. If all else fails i'll try your method, but looking in the cache it's a real mess in there!
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Now, set a read-only attribute on it. As it's already open it will still get written to, but when it is closed it cannot be written; OR DELETED! This is useful because some tools will delete the cached file as soon as it has arrived and followed the rest of itself into RAM for playback. Many times the file will sit nicely in the cache waiting for collection later, but don't count on it. Just finding it can be tough if you watched a few things, lot of big files with cryptic names... The method I describe is pretty much guaranteed, because the only way it can fail is if the system never lets you see the whole thing in the first place. Once saved where you want it, rename as Something.flv or .mp4 because it's usually one or the other and most players that play them don't care which file extension they see so long as they recognise it at all.
