blog: flash video ripping part II

Post by **nikos** » 2009 Feb 22, 12:51

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/22Feb09-FLV- ... -part2.htm

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » 2009 Feb 23, 11:57

Those things are out of my interest, so I have no experience with this.

But by chance I happend to come across this tool: save2pc. Perhaps someone is interested to know.

vserghi · Post by **vserghi** » 2009 Feb 23, 12:33

On a similar note, I have used this piece of software that does a similar job to save2pc

DVDVideoSoft. They have a number of freeware apps connected to downloading YouTube videos

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » 2009 Feb 23, 14:39

Also: Flash Video Downloader YouTube

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2009 Feb 25, 08:51

Not directly related to .FLV scrabbling (I could have sworn the consensus for the IE-hobbled on the first thread was just to use Firefox + DownloadHelper, but what do I know).

nikos wrote:Volume Shadow Service (I never heard about it either)

Volume Shadow Service is kind of like Easter for NTFS (the whole death/resurrection thing).

If anyone has ever used Vista Ultimate (this is not directly available on Home Premium) when right-clicking for file-properties, they'd find a tab labelled "Previous Versions" which, in effect, allows you to individually select/extract "older versions" of the same file from previous System Restore Points. This is, as you might imagine, infinitely useful (correcting small .ini mods, or whatever you may have banjaxed the previous day and need to replace for instance).

For a further basic description of Shadow Copy Service, see here.

The above link also mentions a small free utility programme called ShadowExplorer which enables users of Vista Home Premium or Vista Basic to extract these same "older versions", albeit in a slightly roundabout manner (seek a date first, locate the file, and click 'Extract'.) It is well worth investigating. (Make sure you download the 0.4 version from the home site, not the 0.1 version.)

I suspect Hobocopy is capable of the same task, though it's unclear, and being command-line only isn't too user friendly. ShadowExplorer is window-interfaced, for ease of use.

It works for x86 and x64 versions of Vista Premium/Basic, thankfully.

Post by **nikos** » 2009 Feb 25, 09:25

i wonder how much storage vista takes behind our backs -- actually your backs since i'm still on XP

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2009 Feb 25, 18:31

nikos wrote:i wonder how much storage vista takes behind our backs

Default is 15% of the main drive (which, when you consider the number of people using terrabyte drives these days, can amount to a lot), but this can be adjusted manually by using:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=4GB

nikos wrote: -- actually your backs since i'm still on XP

Not for long. What does it say about a developer who doesn't even use a supported OS anymore? :D Once upon a time you'd have been "a maverick to buck the trend" as the Americans would say. You'd never know it from the economy, but the 80's are over.

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » 2009 Feb 25, 21:52

Kilmatead wrote:
nikos wrote: -- actually your backs since i'm still on XP
but the 80's are over.

XP - 80's.

What do those have in common?

XP is still the most used Windows version today, even if MS counts all Vista liceneses inclusive those, which in fact get used for a downgrade to XP, as Vista-installations. And although in generell I do not like to play the seer, in the following point I am very sure: After the final release of W7 (supposed to be at the end of this year) it will be at first the Vista-users who jump to the the new horse, not the XP-users.

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2009 Feb 25, 22:25

Cosmo wrote:XP - 80's. What do those have in common?

Nothing; Windows, and by extension XP, thankfully, did not exist.

The 80's would have been considered the age wherein programmers stopped being abstract university students (who, me?), hobbyists (Apple ][), or military specialists (Ada, anyone?), and began to be seen as actually a profession open to freelancing, sale-able gaming, and market recruitment.

It was also when "the programmer" still didn't have a place in "the establishment" (there was no IT), so he could waltz into boardrooms with long hair and jeans, whilst the lads with clear job descriptions had to wear suits. The only time I know when the cocky teenager could rightfully scoff at his boss (30 years his senior) and get away with it, because businessmen didn't understand computers, they just knew they needed someone to "make them work". Hence the cocky teenager. (Now, I believe, people actually need Degrees and CV's? Hah. Not then.)

It was also the age when real programming languages were named after renaissance mathematicians and not things like - coffee.

And the internet existed through individuals with modems where 300 baud was considered hip. (Imagine watching someone type a message, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y).

(And all the music, everywhere, was kitsch - but nobody knew it yet.

)

What does this post have to do with anything? Nothing. Just nostalgia. The world was better before XP, and it will be better after XP. Current popularity is just sedation.

Post by **nikos** » 2009 Feb 26, 08:34

most of the "cool" technologies in vista like VSS are present in XP, that's why hobocopy works for me. When you one day wake up and the environment is destroyed by the rubbish from all those PCs that had to be ditched because they were not vista capable and from all the extra power consumption for pointless aero graphics and UAC prompts, you will come to my words: progress: a savage hypocricy

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2009 Feb 26, 08:41

Are you suggesting the 232.9 watts my machine suckles from the wall is hurting Antarctica?

Oh wait... (whistles quietly to himself...)

Edit: It's actually worse than that, my meter-thingy reports 232.9 Volts, 1.55 Amps, and 354 Watts. At idle. Oh dear. The end is nigh. Overclocking? What's that to do with wildlife...