Hi,
This might be a long shot, but I’m was hoping to get some advice on downloading some flash applications from a webpage so I can archive them.
The pages in question form an interactive language learning series called ‘Mi Vida Loca’ which the BBC seems to have abandoned. The files are still hosted on their website but the section of the site has been marked as archived, and not updated.
Each ‘episode’ consists of an interactive video based learning experience, inside a flash player. If I use the Pale-Moon web browser, I can still access them and play them back.
There are plenty of assets for each episode; audio mp3’s, flv video clips, png stills, xml files, and several .SWF files, which I can see in the network panel of the browser inspector.
The bit I’m unsure of is how best to go about archiving these as a whole package, and if its possible to play back offline exactly as intended - I’m not super knowledgable when it comes to flash SWF files and assets, so any advice would be very much appreciated.
I fully understand flash isn’t developed/supported anymore, but would love to know if its possible to archive these - after all, back in 2009 the service won a Bafta award for innovation, but as it’s flash based, it seems to have been forgotten and left.
If anyone is interested in having a look, each episode comes with the interactive video:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/ep01.shtml
And an extra set of interactive learning tools:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/ep01_pb.shtml
Many thanks in advance