Downloading IGN videos stopped working

[Simplex]

Flashgot used to be able to "discover" IGN videos (such as video reviews, etc) and download them. Recently IGN updated their flash video player and now FlashGot is no longer ablle to "see" the video. I think the video link is obfuscated on purpose, or some such - when looking at the HTML source of the page I was able to find a script that I suspect is handling video streaming, but I was unable to do anything else (I do not know JS).

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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://media.ign.com/ign/stp/js/socialALPHA19.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
$j = jQuery;

IGN.pagetype = "mediavideoplayer";
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var urlClip = '';

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    ZeroClipboard.setMoviePath("http:\/\/oyster.ignimgs.com\/static\/ignmedia\/js\/ZeroClipboard.swf");
    embedClip = new ZeroClipboard.Client("videoembed");
    embedClip.setText($j("#videoembed").siblings(".toClipboard").text());
    embedClip.addEventListener('mouseDown',function(){
        $j("#pageurl").text("URL");
        if($j("#pageurl").hasClass("copied")){
            $j("#pageurl").removeClass("copied")
        }
        $j("#videoembed").text("Copied");
        $j("#videoembed").addClass("copied");
        setTimeout(function(){
            $j("#videoembed .tooltip").fadeOut(1000);
            setTimeout(function(){
                $j("#videoembed .tooltip").remove();
            }, 1000);
        }, 1000);
    });
    urlClip = new ZeroClipboard.Client("pageurl");
    urlClip.setText($j("#pageurl").siblings(".toClipboard").text());
    urlClip.addEventListener('mouseDown',function(){
        $j("#pageurl").text("Copied");
        $j("#pageurl").addClass("copied");
        $j("#videoembed").text("Embed");
        if($j("#videoembed").hasClass("copied")){
            $j("#videoembed").removeClass("copied")
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        setTimeout(function(){
            $j("#pageurl .tooltip").fadeOut(1000);
            setTimeout(function(){
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IGNDocumentURL = "http://uk.ign.com/";

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function setPlayerFrameSize(width, height) {
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}

</script>

[therube]

URL: http://uk.ign.com/videos/2010/10/02/ens ... deo-review

Looks like they are now using (or perhaps in the process of converting to) RTMP.
FlashGot cannot see RTMP.

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rtmp://cp101632.edgefcs.net/ondemand/<break>mp4:videos/qt5iawh5xsld/qthblsf39ywx/362/212059_w112398x-1y-1s216.mp4

Net Transport is able to download the stream. So then perhaps Orbit Downloader or others too?

[Simplex]

Thanks a lot for feedback. I was not aware of RTMP protocol.