[Novalug] How to download from a stream

[Theodore Ruegsegger]

Adam Portier wrote:
> Using Firefox, get a plugin called Video DownloadHelper. This will recognize
> most YouTube like streams and let you save them in the native FLV. You can
> play FLV's directly using VLC Player, or GStreamer, or a few codecs for
> Windows.

That'll do it, thanks! My daughter pointed me to an even easier
solution, though it doesn't work with all sites; it's a web app at
http://www.vidtaker.com/ that accepts a URL and converts it into an
FLV file which you can download. Didn't accept the URL I originally
posted but of course that speech is all over YouTube and that did
work.

> I would recomend transcoding it into another format thats more
> universaly usable (like AVI). I recommend Avidemux for that; it works in
> Windows and Linux.

That would have been my very next question! Thanks very much.

Ted