How to Get Movie from Browser

Sothink SWF Catcher is an assistant tool of Sothink SWF Decompiler. It is used to capture flash movie from IE browser.

Before you install Sothink SWF Decompiler, please make sure you have closed all IE browsers.
When you finish the installation, restart your IE browser.
You will find a small button of Sothink SWF Catcher is added to Internet Explorer's toolbar.

Step one: Launch Sothink SWF Catcher

Generally, when you see a great flash movie, there are two ways to get it:

  1. Method 1: Click the "SWF Catcher " button . (See 1 in following image)
  2. Method 2: Right-click and select "Sothink SWF Catcher " from the popup menu. (See 2 in following image)
     

Step two: Save a captured flash movie

Then the Save dialog will popup to show all the flash movies in this page.

  1. Choose moive you want to get:
    Check the box in front of the flash movie you want. You can also use "Select All" to choose all the flash files and "Deselect All" to uncheck all.
  2. Set a folder to save the captured movie:
    Click the arrow button besides "Save to" to set the file saved directory. You can browse and choose a folder to store the flash movie, or use the default or the last saved directory.
    The "default directory" can be set in Settings dialog.
    (Note: If you have not set the saved directory, the "Save" button may be gray out and not clickable.)
  3. Click "Save" button to store the flash movie to your local disk successfully.
    And if you pick the option, "Launch SWF Decompiler when closing this window", the SWF Decompiler program will be launched to show this movie automatically.

: refers this flash file has been saved in the cache of your IE browser.
: refers this flash file will be captured from internet directly and it has not been stored in browser's cache yet.

 

Tips:

If you see the flash movie in a pop-up IE window, which has no address bar and toolbar, please do as follows to capture it:

  1. Open a new blank IE browser window;
  2. Drag the IE icon from pop-up window's address bar to this new window;
  3. The flash movie will be opened in this new window;
  4. Now you can use method 1 or 2 to to catch it.

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