OSX & Safari users can save 99% of flv's - maybe this will work for PC & FFox users??Unsure how this would work on a PC & Firefox - after getting poor results with FFox's add-on's in OSX at the time, I returned to Safari, installed SAFT (which does the job of 50 add-ons for FFox except downloads, then went about setting up Safari to play every net stream by installing all available codecs.
Afterward I found I could download almost all with DiVX & Player was installed but still i wanted to grab .flv's..
so I tried Real Player 10 (gold) and that was the answer, oddly as i haven't seen an RM stream in months. But it works for all flv streams.
I thought initially it would be of little use but Real Player DOES have a use. It can save played .flv's from my browsers cache.
To expand.
(i'll proly find out that everyone else has been doing this since 2006+

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To guarentee Real Player can download flv's you must instal the downloader which is an option.
After installing Real Player 10 there is a pop up option to instal its own "downloader".When any .flv file is playing in Safari (from any site such as Guba, You Tube, Yoku to Mega Video etc etc except oddly WiseVid* the Real Player Downloader 'captures' the file and when finished viewing you have the option to 'download' which actually just saves/finalises the saving to hard drive and removing from Safari's cache of the already downloaded vid.
I'm a bit behind my updates I expect but i'm using Safari 3.1.2 & OSX 10.5.5, as said Real Player 10 (gold) (RP does have a use after all !!

*maybe updateing Real Player may help IF there is a version 11, i've been away a year and just got back so i'd expect an update? and possibly wisevid flv saving???
The flv can be converted with a number of OSX app. Visual Hub i prefer as its to avi and will stitch any number of individual files. Also Easy WMV will convert flv's but only to m4a (hmm) Quicktime pro will offer saving to many formats also.
or just play in VLC, though seeking (fwd> or Bckwd < can often be impossible with flv's dependant on your VLC vrsn. VLC 1.0.0 seems very capable.
Hope that helps someone and would be great if it was a 1 stop answer to firefox's MANY add-on's in both PC & Mac.
I'd be interested to know if this is old info or helpful to others. PC/OSX, FireFox/Safari and even I.E. users (do people still use that?)
Pe(A)c3
Would this benefit being an OSX / Safari version of this topic in it's self Admin?