Here’s a simple and free way to download videos from sibnet.ru, I’m writing this because I haven’t found anything on the web. I tried Ant Video Downloader but it doesn’t work. Then there’s GetFLV but you have to pay for it. There’s also a few online websites that can do it for you but none of them worked.

First, open up the page of the video and check out the source page, in Firefox you can just right-click anywhere on the page and select ‘View Page Source’. At around line 215, you should see something like that :

<script type="text/javascript">
    jwplayer('player_container').setup(
    {                                      
                'width': '640',                       
        'height': '384',
        'players': [ {type: 'flash', src: '/player/player.swf'} ],
                                        'file':'/v/a8309e938c3b849e12465ba34e585f6/1254874.mp4',

You need to copy the file part and appending http://video.sibnet.ru before so it looks like that :

http://video.sibnet.ru/v/a8309e938c3b849e12465ba34e585f6/1254874.mp4

If you paste this in Firefox, it will play the video and on Windows you can just right-click the video and choose “Save Video As…” and it will download it! In Linux however, GNOME Mplayer might get in the way, but you just need to open up a terminal and type:

wget http://video.sibnet.ru/v/a8309e938c3b849e12465ba34e585f6/1254874.mp4

And finally, to convert it, if you’re in Linux just type in a terminal:

avconv -i downloaded_video.mp4 audio.wav
lame -h audio.wav audio.mp3

You will now have your audio file which is audio.mp3. If you’re in Windows, it’s a bit more complicated but you can achieve the same thing with Avidemux.