All- I've been trying to grab several videos off the PBS web pages so I can convert them to mpeg and watch them on my PDA while I'm commuting. After lots of deconstructing, I have determined that all of the pages load the same SWF file and pass it a link. The link refers to an html page, and somehow the SWF file figures out the streaming address of the video from that page. For instance, the Sphinx video page (http://video.pbs.org/video/1390312942/) embeds http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf and passes it "http://video.pbs.org/videoPlayerInfo/1390312942"; as an argument. PBSPlayer.swf (which is only 480k) does a quick re-direct to stream in the right video. I have not been able to figure out the address of the video from looking at the source of http://video.pbs.org/videoPlayerInfo/1390312942 Is there some way to determine what PBSPlayer.swf is doing (e.g. what streaming address it is accessing so I can dumpstream it with mplayer)? regards, NT
