[MPlayer-users] Deconstructing how a .swf file gets a video

[László Monda]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Muzer <muzerakascooby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 15/05/10 04:38, RC wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:22:38 -0500
>> Nathan Thern <nthern at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there some way to determine what PBSPlayer.swf is doing (e.g. what
>>> streaming address it is accessing so I can dumpstream it with
>>> mplayer)?
>>
>> Set your browser to use an HTTP proxy, and set the proxy to debug mode
>> so it prints out every HTTP request...
>>
>> It would be very nice if someone stripped-down gnash or swfdec to just
>> parse out the video URLs, but I haven't seen it yet.  I started
>> looking at the SWF video playback format docs some time ago, but I'm
>> certainly not up for that much of a project.
>>
> Or use wireshark...

The easiest solution is to use the Live HTTP Headers add-on of Firefox.

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