Using those sort of services is completely fine, but you’ll eventually run into a snag.
For these types of websites, I recommendMedia Sniffer.
You’ll need to installWinPcapto allow Media Sniffer to work properly.
It’s important to know which internet interface to sniff and analyze.
Generally, the interface that displays your local IP address is the right pick.
At thisPreferenceswindow, you’re able to also determine exactly what connection traffic is being captured.
If you want just movies, it’s possible for you to limit those separate file extensions.
If you want just zipped archives, that’s fine also.
Port 80 is the default port for HTTP traffic.
That means you’re free to be browsing casually using Chrome, and sniffing usingFirefox.
Once you’re comfortable with how you’ve got it configured, take it for a spin.
If movies are being whitelisted in your configs, go sit through a few seconds of aYouTubevideo.
Pasting the URL into your online window will cause nothing more than an empty video object to show up.
The smaller fish are easier to pick off.
It’s a very small software that doesn’t take up many resources at all.
We’re able to make a much better example out of Twitvid, a smaller video-hosting website.
Go to Twitvid (no longer available)>, start capturing, and play any video.
You’ll instantly notice it pop up in the captured URLs.
Again, just right click, copy, and paste into your net net app.
It’ll take you to the raw MP4 file.
It doesn’t matter if it’s streaming audio, video, Flash content, etc.
Keep your fingers crossed.
