www.cbsnews.com: record flash videos from CBS news: 60 minutes site video capture

Originally Posted by squash

The video is at: I got the location out of Firefox's cache. Since you appear to be using Firefox, here's how to do it in case you need to in the future:

Click on the URL you gave, let the video play. Open a new tab; in the address bar type in: "about:cache" (no quotes). Hit "enter". Under "Disk Cache Device", click on the "List Cache Entries" hyperlink.

You'll see a huge list of links. I searched on "roll" (from the webpage). The 1st hit was an mp3 file from rollwithit.com. The next was an html file from rollwithit. The 3rd was a 4 meg swf file. This looks like what we're after, but DO NOT try to download from here. Click on the link and this will open another page, with only one link on it. This is where your file is. Right-click the link and "Save link as..." and you will be all set.

Hope this helps.

Edit: just wanted to add, the file is already there in your cache, so you don't really need to download it, you just have to find it. It will have a random looking name and no extension. I just now sorted my cache by size and looked for one the same size as that given by the info on the "disk cache device" page, found a match, copied it to the desktop, tacked a ".swf" on to the end of it and it played fine (FF had named it "F80A8847d01"). Might save you some time to do it this way if it's a big file or if you're on dialup