Flash stream recorders for Mac OS X (supporting RTMP protocol)

Jaksta for Mac allows to download HTTP and RTMP videos from Flash player.

TubeMaster++ for Mac OS is under development.

You can use command line tool rtmpdump, but you may have problems finding RTMP and RTMPE URLs for this utility. You may try rtmpsrv and rtmpsuck that come with rtmpdump.

Recording HTTP flash video streams on Mac OS X

You can do this right from Safari.

1. Go to a flash video page and hold down Option-Apple-A
2. An activity window opens
3. Scan all the processes and look for a the only large file in the list (500 Kb to as much as 10Mb) file that is often still in the process of downloading (sometimes but not always with a .flv suffix)
4. Double click it and OSX downloads it.

If you install the free Qucktime plugin Perian, you can watch the flash files right in quicktime.


If you using the Firefox browser then there are many add-ons, i using the Fast Video Download, VideoDownloadHelper or NetVideoHunter to download videos, and it works well for me not only on youtube but on other video sites that use HTTP protocol too.