So you want to watch a video on e.g. megavideo, youtube, ... but don't want to use the build in Flashplayer?

No problem! Download the FLV file in 6 simple steps:

1. Fire up wireshark, choose your NIC connected to the Internet
2. Add the following filter rule to wireshark:
   Megavideo:
   http && http.request.method == "GET" && http.host matches "megavideo.com" && http.request.uri contains "files" 
   YoutTube:
   http && http.request.method == "GET" && http.host contains "google" && http.request.uri contains "origin"
   
3. Start captureing
4. Browse to the movie you want to watch and klick on PLAY
5. Combine the host address from "DESTINATION" column and the path from "INFO" column (strip the garbage)
6. Now run this URL in your favorite downloader like this:
   e.g. Megavideo: wget "http://${DESTINATION}/${INFO}/video.flv"

Other streaming portals might work similar... so just play around with the filtering rules.