How to capture flash video

Today, flash video is everywhere. More and more sites work with flash player. Since Flash video is the best video format for website that enables highly-compressed stream video play in most browsers effectively. Flash video appears in two ways: .SWF files and .FLV files. For the video download addicts, however, it is very difficult to capture flash video from Internet.

So is it possible to capture and download these flash videos? What if you want to capture video from flash player? And how can you play the .FLV flash video on iPod, iPhone, Cell Phone?

Fortunately, it is possible to capture flash video. And in this guide, I will describe how to capture streaming flash video (from video sharing sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, iFilm, Metacafe, etc), and save as MP4, 3GP, MOV, AVI, Xvid, H.264, etc.

There are a great many ways available to capture flash video online to your computer, listed are the easiest but very useful ones.

How to capture flash video with Streaming Video Capture?

Streaming Video Capture is an easy-to-use yet very powerful Flash Video Capture to help you capture embedded flash video from internet at a fast speed and save in any popular format.

Free download Flash Video Capture and install it, the steps below will teach you how to do that.

Step1. Open Flash Video Capture, click on “Settings” to set video download folder or any other parameters according to your taste.

Important Notice:

Because there are many ads in .swf format, if you record video on the page, it will record many ads in .swf format, so we have disable detecting swf file in the page.

If you want to record SWF video from a website, please add “swf” to  the recording type, check screenshots:

Step2. Play your online Flash Video. For example, start a flash streaming video from YouTube in your browser. As soon as the flash video starts to play, the smart Flash Video Capture will auto-detect it and begin to capture flash video (*.swf and *.flv).

Step3. That’s it! But there is a problem. These videos are downloaded in their original .FLV or .SWF format which is not playable on iPod, iPhone or other common media players. Click on the “Convert” button to the convert tab, so you can convert these .flv, .swf files to .mp4, .avi, .mov or any other proper format.

This Flash Video Capture makes it fairly simple to the flash video embedded in the web page. With it, you will be able to capture flash swf, capture flash flv, capture flash movie, capture YouTube flash video and capture video from adobe flash player.

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Capture flash video with Video Downloader Suite

Video Downloader Suite is another complete flash video capture tool to capture flash video from internet. This utility allows you to capture embedded flash videos on the web pages direct to computer. Easily capture Flash video FLV and Flash SWF from YouTube, MySpace, Fox and more sites. Support convert flash video to iPod, iPhone or other digital media players.

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