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Originally Posted by Troy Dreier
If you've ever found a Flash video online that you wanted to save to your hard drive, you've probably found that Flash is a tricky format for downloading. It's no accident. Even unencrypted Flash video, such as most content on YouTube, is difficult to save since you can't simply right-click to save it, as you can with an image file.
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It is really hard to copy a youtube link and paste it into a box on a web-site like
http://download-youtube-videos.org/?
It is really hard to install a Firefox extension like
Fast Video Download that allows to save flash videos with a couple of clicks?
Is it really hard to install software like
Freecorder 4 or
Jaksta Free Media Recorder that will automatically save flash videos?
Or may be it is hard to hit the Record button in
Replay Media Catcher,
Jaksta,
WM Recorder,...?
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Originally Posted by Troy Dreier
Video-on-demand sites with premium content (meaning Hollywood major studio content) encrypt their Flash streams, making them even harder to grab.
To encrypt their Flash streams, content owners often rely on Adobe Protected Streaming, which uses either the RTMPE or RTMPS protocols.
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I'm really sorry that it is hard for "a well-known technology writer specializing in audio and video hardware and software" to use
rtmpdump and rtmpsuck. But nowadays it is possible to use other GUI
RTMPE stream recording software like
StreamTransport.
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Originally Posted by Troy Dreier
Adobe Flash is the most common format for online video, and Protected Steaming is Adobe's solution for content owners who want to safeguard the video they put online.
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If you're a happy consumer of such safeguarding, see software above.
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Originally Posted by Troy Dreier
Adobe's system takes two forms: encryption and access control. Encryption means that the data sent—the video itself—is garbled so that an unauthorized user can't grab the stream and save the video. Videos protected by Microsoft's Windows Media DRM are stored in an encrypted state, but Adobe Protected Streaming videos are encrypted as they're sent, and then de-encrypted by the player.
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Have you ever heard about Microsoft Silverlight?
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Originally Posted by Troy Dreier
Access control is an optional part of Protected Streaming, and it means that only allowed players can play the video. This prevents a third-party application from grabbing the stream and playing it.
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See software mentioned above.
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Originally Posted by Troy Dreier
RTMPE is now the dominant form of Flash encryption, but you're not going to notice which system a Web site is using when you stream a video. All the end user notices is that the video plays quickly and smoothly. If you have trouble playing protected Flash content, make sure you have the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player. Your computer should prompt you to download a newer version if it's required for the site you're on.
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Oh, so Apple doesn't want to support Flash in its
iPad and other hardware because flash videos play "quickly and smoothly"?
The author should learn more about flash support at least on Windows 64bit, not to mention Linux and Mac OS.