After installing mcrypt, you must open a new terminal window or tab to use it.A dependency of AdobeHDS is not installed, so in Terminal run :.PHP should be installed alreadyon your mac.When you view the AdobeHDS.php file at Sourceforge, copy/paste it into a file, and name it AdobeHDS.php.To add a few more baby steps (for Mac users) : Posting some info from a comment by Eric L. You should now have an FLV file waiting for you in the script directory. Now just run the script with the manifest URL and you should get the re-combined flv file: $ php AdobeHDS.php -delete -manifest ''Īvailable: 2048 1856 1536 1280 896 640 480 299įragments Total: 55, First: 1, Start: 1, Parallel: 8 You want the first one, which will probably be called “ manifest.f4m“. In the Filter text box type “ f4m” and you should now see a few F4M requests.Open the video page and let the video load.

Make sure that “Net” filter is selected.

Open Firefox Console ( Ctrl+Shift+K) or Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console.

This manifest file is easy to obtain, b/c it is delivered via a plain GET request that is issued before the video starts playing. To find the URL: There is a script called AdobeHDS.php, which can automate the download process for you if you provide it with the F4M Manifest for the stream. You can download the script from You could download them all and combine them together, but that’s not the best way to do this. These are all the F4F fragments of the video.

Search for a bunch of files that have the word ‘Frag’ in them.

Open a new tab and browse to about:cache?storage=disk.

Clear Firefox cache (Tools -> Options -> Network, Clear Cached Web Content, Clear User Data).

You can easily check if HDS is being used by using Firefox to watch the video. Turns out that this particular page was using the new Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) technology. With HDS, the original MP4 or FLV file is split up into many F4F segments, which are then served to the media player on the page one after the other, so there is no single video file to download like with most other video streaming technologies. I came across a Flash video that I was not able to save with any Video Downloader app, including the ones that actually sniff traffic on your network adapter, such as Replay Media Catcher and many others.

Replay media catcher 4 for f4f