what program would rip flash videos off a site?

**love2learn** · May 4th, 2008

I am not talking about youtube only, I would like to be able to rip any flash video off of any site. such as windows has here:

Flash Rip Or Play (tm) is a tool to Rip (download) any Flash game or movie files or their links from IE pages viewed containing embedded Flash (.swf) file links. Features include Previewing Flash Links, Ripping Flash files to your hard drive to open and play at will, or saving Favorite Links for later preview or download.

is there anything like this?
Thanks for your help

sorry: i am using ubuntu gutsy

**NightwishFan** · May 4th, 2008

There is a command line application that rips youtube videos called "youtube-dl". I have tried it and it works fine. For other flash videos I have no idea, however there is a firefox extension that can rip them I believe.

**metalf8801** · May 4th, 2008

there are lots of Firefox add ons that will let you do that heres a link to one of them
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590

**love2learn** · May 4th, 2008

I downloaded
Fast Video Download 1.5

and tried to get the video but came up with this:

**NightwishFan** · May 4th, 2008

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

That should fix your problem.

**love2learn** · May 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by NightwishFan

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

That should fix your problem.

got this:

lucana@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-restricted-extras is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
lucana@laptop:~$