Because of the sister of a friend needed to download videos of spiegel.de for school, I searched for a possibility to do that. It took just a few minutes (or even seconds) to find what I was looking for by analyzing the HTTP traffic, sent to the server by the Movie-Player of SPIEGEL ONLINE, which is completely in Flash. This showed me once again that I can’t just destroy stuff with my knowledge, I can also help people. Because someone else could also be interested in how to do this and it’s more or less the same thing everywhere you’ve got a similar situation on the web, I’ve created a small video HowTo.
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You’ll find the movies at [www.spiegel.de], the Firefox extension I’m using is Firebug and of course at the end you see Wget and VLC.