"WoW Meets Porn" Video

This page provides detail for downloading the video in a way that is easy to save to one's hard drive, and then playing the video.

apparently official link and apparenly official link for the player given by either of the pages: video name in path or the original URL that wsa given to me.

The apparently official download link for the WoW Meets Porn video doesn't let the user save the video to the hard drive.

In a forum post a user named Morphy says: "First used Firefox's Page Info to find the "embedded" url used. Downloaded the page with WebCopier to get the player.swf itself. Flash Decompiler (demo version) to pull out it's scripts to see what url it was looking at. Then plugged that url (with the video id data) into Free Download Manager (Firefox plugin) to get the video (+7mb)." obtained the WoWmeets.flv data file which can be used with a Windows executable (FLV Player 1.3.2) or Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player 2.3 (with a license for non-commercial use) which web authors can use to play a video using the following HTML code:

Now, the only difficulty for a skilled web user to use Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player 2.3 comes from the development of version 2.1 of the player: "I set the width and height of the video to be the same size as the html object. all repositioning and rescaling based upon the flv metadata are gone." I presume this is because the code didn't work well, but since automatic detection doesn't work, the width and height of the FLV file must be obtained.

Finding the file size method one: Looking again at the apparently official download link for the WoW Meets Porn video I see the web page gives a URL referring to a width of 425 and an object of 350. Having said taht, measuring the pixels (by taking a screenshot and highlighting the area in MS Paint, zoomed in at 2x) the video was actually playing at 450x338, with a 450x31 control bar on the bottom, so the entire player was 450x369. This analysis led me to use 450x358 in my example HTML code showed above, as I added 20 pixels per the documentation of Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player 2.3.

Finding the file size method two: Run FLV Player 1.3.2 and click on the "url..." button, even if the file is on the local hard drive. (The "file..." button seems to have no effect.) Load the file, and then as it is playing resize the FLV Player 1.3.2 application (by pointing at the lower-right corner of the application, not the border). Resizing the player causes the information "video: (n/a) - audio: (n/a) - size: (n/a) (320x240)" to show up on the screen above the video. That makes me wonder if the FLV file specifies it is 320x240 in size. It's interesting, though, that the player starts with a viewing area of 240 height before loading a video. Maybe it is resizing the video down?

If you'd like to download the video from here, you can try a URL for a local file download which, as of this writing, doesn't (yet) exist.