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Video – How to find the stream behind a Flash player

I am watching a Flash stream. I can watch the same stream in two different players (set up by someone else), but I don’t like any of them.

Is there a way I can find/get/extract the direct link to the flash stream that those two players are playing? So that I can watch it using a different player?

Edit: The player is streaming an RTMP stream, not an FLV video file.

Solution:

Download and decompile the flash file. The source of the stream should be pretty easy to find.

It’s possible that the player is generic, and the file/stream it is playing is being passed in as a param. Grep the webpage source code for “embed”/”swf” or text that’s near the flash object on the page. Then look at the contents of “param name”/”param value”

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