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kaspi

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From: CERN, Geneva

Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 24

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grabbing sound from flash player

Hi all,

I've found a nice music clip on the web. It is played in a flash player and I'd like to grab the sound and save it as mp3 or so. I've done a few attempts with arecord and audacity, but I'm probably missing the right options - I'm getting no sound recorded. Would you know a way to accomplish that?

Thanks much, Kašpi.

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: grabbing sound from flash player

You might want to check swftools, http://www.swftools.org/
I think there is a PKGBUILD in AUR

schivmeister

Developer/TU

From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: grabbing sound from flash player

You'll have the temporary flash (in flv format but no extension, random name) file in /tmp. Grab it and convert it just like any other video file.

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I need real, proper pen and paper for this.

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: grabbing sound from flash player

There are a bunch of extensions for FF that will allow you to grab flv files without going through the cache. Search for video grabber or something like that.

flv files already have mp3 as their audio track. If you have FFmpeg on your machine:

ffmpeg -i <your_input_video>.flv -vn -acodec copy <your_output_file>.mp3

kaspi

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From: CERN, Geneva

Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 24

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Re: grabbing sound from flash player

Thank you, guys, very much. Your advice worked out of the box :-)

Cheers, Kaspi.