There's another way to deal with flash viddys which i can offer.
When we go to a page like that one and play a video in Safari (take the first one called "Dean K." for example), a temporary file gets created. Depending on OS version it could be in different places... but hunt around for something called
FlashTmp0In 10.6.3, it goes into the
hidden temp & cache area:
ls -ln /private/var/folders/*/*/TemporaryItems/
total 19400
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 501 9929167 May 12 00:30 FlashTmp0
That there is the "Dean K." viddy after the download has completed (almost 10 megs). So ---before doing anything else---
move it from that TemporaryItems folder onto the desktop, and
rename it with a
.flv extension. For example,
lipitor-vid-1.flvThat file right there now can be played with
VLC (and probably via Perian too, idunno). And there may be many converters out there, but the one i know about is called
Flv Crunch. So... if need be, simply run that flash video
.flv file through "Flv Crunch" and make it into a
.mp4 (or something) which QuickTime can play.
The End.
