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The Complete Guide to Ripping and Converting Flash Videos
W hether you want to save and watc h a Flash video offline, c onvert a Flash music video for your MP3 player, or do something else entirely, learning how to rip and c onvert Flash videos is a useful skill. Here's how it works. W hen it c omes to ripping Flash videos, there's more than one way to ac c omplish the task, and in many c ases it depends greatly on where you're grabbing the video. W e'll c over a number of different options for downloading Flash videos, as well as several ways you c an c onvert them into more useful formats. Onc e you've seen the options, you c an c hoose the one that works best for you and your situation.
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video into almost any formatin fac t, you c an use this tiny applic ation to c onvert almost any video (YouT ube or not) into almost any popular format. If you'd rather not use a separate piec e of software, you c an use the Get YouT ube Video bookmarklet, or any number of spec ializ ed sites like Kic kYouT ube, KeepVid, deturl, or Vixy to download and rip videos from YouT ube or some other sites. The problem with most of these types of sites is that they go up and down, and often end up c overed in sleaz y ads that tric k you into c lic king the wrong thingthough Vixy seems to be a solid option, for now.
The qmin and qmax parameters are important for making sure the quality of video is goodthe lower the parameters, the better the quality. The -ar parameter is the quality of the audio, and the extension of the lename on the last parameter tells mpeg what format to c onvert the le into. For instanc e, to c onvert a ash video to MP3, you c ould use something like the following:
If all the c ommand-line options are too muc h for you to deal with, you c an always grab a graphic al front-end for ffmpeg, like W inFF or S uper.
W hat about you? W hat's your favorite method for downloading and ripping Flash videos? S hare your thoughts and expertise in the c omments.
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