Comments on: Retrieve Flash Movie In IE7 Cache Folder Of Windows Vista

By: Walker

Walker — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:05:00 +0000

I understand your frustration of watching online while kids occupying your broadband. Can this WebVideoCap (Capture Flash video and RTSP/MMS streams) able to help you?

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:22:04 +0000

Let me clarify – you / we can find PLENTY of cached FLV & TMP files, if we want to view COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS! They don’t block those and ‘disappear’ those as soon as the show has been watched – in fact, they WANT you to view those over and over and over and over again.

So, commericals are free and they remain in cache, but not the ‘movies’ – now the browser makess and the studios/TV stations have worked together to make it almost IMPOSSIBLE to use ‘Video Download Helper’ in Firefox, or any other such ‘workaround.’
As an example, please tell me WHAT VERSION of O/S & IE (or Firefox) that you are using that will let you go to SyFy.com and watch the new series called “Alphas” and then be able to download it. You CAN’T! Unless maybe IE6 will let you do that, but now they are forcing you to upgrade FLASH and maybe even IE, before allowing you to view their sites, because Adobe Flash has agreed to NOT allow browsers to cache and download movies!

For me, it’s not like I would ‘sell’ or even show the episode to anyone, I just want to download and watch the episode that I missed, since I sometimes work odd hours. I do NOT WANT TO “STREAM” – streaming sucks and is prone to interruptions, especially if you have 2 kids who are using PS3 online and XBOX360 online and sucking down all the bandwidth in the house! So, if I can dl the show and watch it ‘locally,’ then it really helps a LOT – and I don’t MIND if the ADVERTISEMENTS are there – I actually find them to be pleasant.
Anyway, thanks for a method that USED TO WORK. :)
Ideas? Thoughts? Anyone get this to work yet with those places that BLOCk ‘Video Download Helper?’

There has GOT to be a way – it has GOT to be cached, if nothing else, in ‘memory,’ but how to capture that??? We should be able to capture ANYTHING that comes through our PCs!

Makes me want to capture every single bit the old-fashioned way – WITH A ‘SNIFFER’ !
A network sniffer captures ALL the traffic going across your NIC, so you should later be able to reassemble the relevant packets / bits that make up the movie, and re-construct those into the TV episode or movie – does that sound viable? A lot of work, but we could get some sort of filtering set up that only re-assembles the packets if they are ‘flash’ / multimedia packets.

???

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:12:02 +0000

This does NOT work – not any longer. Apparently they now do some more ‘dynamic’ caching in both IE and Firefox and so the tmp and flv files are not cached any more, not in the area you mentioned – Every folder under content.ie5 is hidden+system, so all those cryptic names, a BUNCH of folders, you would have to do ‘attrib -h -s 8502XCI4′ etc. for each and every folder name like 8502XCI4, BEFORE you could even do a decent search.
Yes, file & folder options are set for “show all hidden and system files,” BUT even in administrator mode, in the Windows explorer GUI, it prompts “Are you sure you want to open this folder.”

So, basically, there’s no longer any easy way to do this.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:14:59 +0000

Thanks worked great!

By: Will

Will — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:17:34 +0000

Thank you for this post!!!! God bless you!! I was about to go crazy cause I couldnt figure out why the temp folder wasnt ther. Turns out i was i n protected mode like you described! Thank you, thank you!

By: Kyriakos Politis

Kyriakos Politis — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:01:59 +0000

Foolproof, straight-forward and effective,
thanks man.

By: ck

ck — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:21:12 +0000

Thanks man!
It was really really helpfull.
c ya