Recovering old videos

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Hey I was trying to search some old videos from youtube (and some old websites before) and because wayback machine saves some videos and some you can't even play. It used to run old videos from like before 2015 or close to that year fine but now when I go to old links like that it says download latest flash player and when I finnaly found working installer that didn't direct me to the adobe website it said it can't run it.

I don't have the knowledge or the time to find a way to get these videos back and would only like to download them for archiving them on my Pc and couple of external disks so that content isn't lost forever.

Lately I went down some rabbit whole and the most reliable source for the info was ED for christ sake so if anyone have any knowledge how to recover videos would be very appreciative. Even basic info like downloading videos from wayback machine links would be appreciative. Or if there are some complex ways to recover ton of videos like this one youtube channel 140 videos and 90% of them are lost. There used to be a website that had a lot of archives from this channel but that site shut down too so any kind of method there is you can think of getting them back would really be helpfull when I get the time I will try all of them. Thanks in advance.

(Sorry for bad grammar and english)
 
If you can download the Flash video file, you should be able to open it locally somehow. I'm pretty sure no browser supports Flash in-browser anymore, do they?
 
Dick Mason dijo:
If you can download the Flash video file, you should be able to open it locally somehow. I'm pretty sure no browser supports Flash in-browser anymore, do they?
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Adobe provides a separate utility you can download that will open swf files.

You're right in regards to browsers, they all deprecated Flash support years ago.
 
ffmpeg is probably going to be your ideal tool for working with old Flash videos, provided they're video content and not animation.

GNU Gnash ( https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ) is where I'd start for the animation stuff.
 
analrapist dijo:
The issue is you don't really know what you're doing so you don't describe the problem well enough for me to really guide you.

Can you post an example or two? I can take a look.
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Here are some archives.
I hate this fat scammer but he is unfortunately a part of the story. It is more about Naturalselector89 and his videos which even links are hard to find let alone if someone has archived his videos. There was a user on youtube who had some and possibly even more of them but youtube keeps deleting most of his videos because of copyrighted music. He mentioned a website that had most of these videos but I still haven't heard from him about that.
I think it is a shame these videos are lost despite everything that happend but there is some value in keeping them to see the mental decay that happend before the tragedy that transpired in the end.
 
The video could well still exist on some hard-drive somewhere in a YouTube datacentre, but it's unlikely we'll ever get it (or maybe the Amazingly Fat Atheist kept a copy). Archiving a web page doesn't archive the videos on it, this is why it's so important to archive the videos separately (e.g. using youtube-dl).
 
Dambusters' Dog II dijo:
The video could well still exist on some hard-drive somewhere in a YouTube datacentre, but it's unlikely we'll ever get it (or maybe the Amazingly Fat Atheist kept a copy). Archiving a web page doesn't archive the videos on it, this is why it's so important to archive the videos separately (e.g. using youtube-dl).
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In the olden flash times the video was just a url to a file, so many old videos got saved. Those particular scrapes were from Alexa though, which probably ignored flash altogether.
 
analrapist dijo:
Thank you for providing links.

https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/TheAmazingAtheist_Naturalselector89_Videos this website thinks they're lost; there's surely nothing there at the internet archive like @User names must be unique says. I went through all resources linked to by that page. Maybe there's a user with a bigger brain that can wring more out here, but I've hit my limit.

I think you're SOL.
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Thanks for trying those are less important it is just fat atheist being fat atheist.
I have this channel that has some videos and someone already contacted him for archiving but he hasn't made any statements since.

And there is ED with page with bunch of broken links even the ones saying archive leading to god knows where. I remember seeing the names of all of his lost videos on ED but it is gone now or maybe it was somewhere else but that is pretty much all that is left beyond searching for it in finish if someone here knows it and is willing.
 
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