[MEncoder-users] Downloading a stream

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:22:47PM -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> Could someone please explain how I might save a video stream?
> 
> It is not an ordinary stream like youtube.
> 
> When I play it, and I click on the doun-arrow next to
> the icon of the firefox add-on "Video DownloadHelper",
> it displays many files whose names are all numbers, with
> the extension .f4f
> 
> I downloaded one of those and it is not playable by any
> player I have (mplayer, vlc).
> 
> So, how can I save the stream as an mp4 or any of the
> formats that mplayer or vlc can play?

A sample file (or web site) would probably be useful, it might be not
that hard to implement support.