How to Download Flash Movies
We see embedded movies on the web page. For example we view videos at youtube and many other sites, where the flash movies are embedded. You many want to download the video to your computer. The bad news is the most of such flash movies do not allow the viewers to download the movies to their computers. They don’t come with “right click” and “save as” option. So, the question arises as to how to download flash movies? There is a simple way to save the flash movies to your pc.
In the next few points you will be able to understand the technique of downloading the flash movie to your computer.
Following are some points in regard to our topic “how to download flash movies.”
1. First, you will have to check if your browser has the suitable add-ons or plug-ins loaded? If not, then visit your browser’s official website for the add-ons that are used for downloading the flash movies. Install the plug-ins by following the instructions.
2. Now open the internet explorer browser window.
3. In the menu bar, you will see an option named “tools”. Move the cursor towards it and select the “tools” menu. From the tools menu list select “internet options”. Find the tab “setting” and click by selecting it. Now, you will get a tab called “View Files”. Select it.
4. Another window will pop-up with the data of temporary files after you choose “View Files”. From here we will get the specific address of that flash movie. Now, how to select the right address? All you have to do is, arrange the temporary files by right clicking and selecting “internet address” from “Arrange Icons By” option.
5. Here is the answer for the above question that is how to select the right address for the file? Find a file with the extension .swf. Flash movies always have the extension .SWF. Scroll down the complete list so that you don’t miss on any. Select the right address from the list.
6. To save the file, highlight the address of the flash movie. After highlighting, right-click on the highlighted address and choose the option “Copy” to copy the address. The same ways, go to the destination folder where you want to save the video file, right-click and choose the option “paste” to save the movie on your computer.
There you go! You have the flash movie saved in your computer. To open the flash movie you may have to open a single web browser window and go to the folder where that flash movie is saved. Click and drag this flash file to the web browser window. Drop the file on the window, and there you have your flash movie being played there in the browser window!
Flash movies can also be downloaded by much software but this becomes lengthy and cumbersome job. The above method is the simplest of all and cheapest as well.Hope you have a good time watching your flash movies.
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