> No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it.
My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just "right-click => Save Video as..." and it's done, whereas with Flash I am not offered any option to save the video. [ Using Gnash, indeed, there's a configuration variable about where to save the viewed videos, but it's not nearly as convenient, and Gnash fails more often than it works, for me. ] Stefan