Saving Flash animations (was: Funny Linux animation)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, at 2:43pm, Lawrence.Tilly at libertymutual.com wrote:
> How do you capture one of these for personal archiving?

  If you browse with Mozilla: From the "View" menu, pick "Page Info".  In
the resulting dialog, select the "Media" tab.  Scroll down and select the
Flash file (it will almost always have a ".swf" extension).  Then push the
resulting "Save As" button.

  The above has the advantage of pulling it from Mozilla's cache, which is
good for those of us (like me) on slow links.  Otherwise, I would have to
download it twice: Once to view it and decide if I like it, and once again
to save it.

  Once downloaded, you can view it using the stand-alone Flash player for
Linux.  The command name is 'gflashplayer'.  It is available for download
from Macromedia's website.  It is a separate package (vs the browser
plug-in).

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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