How to play embedded flash videos in external players?

Question

As discussed in a separate question, embedded flash videos are abnormally heavy on GPU resources.

The answer given by izx here (and namely in one comment) shows that

”Flash 11+ "attempts" (poorly, it looks like) to use the GPU (hardware) to "decode" the video instead of the CPU (software).
Decoding is a fairly computationally intensive task, but most modern CPUs (except Atoms) will deal with 1080P HD without breaking a sweat.”.

So, it seems that a solution would be opening those videos in external players, even without downloading them, so as to put to work the CPU instead of the GPU.

Solution

There is actually a pretty cool way to view all flash videos outside of your browser. But at the moment I only know it works on chrome and chromium. Before the page with the flash player loads press ctrl+shift+J This will open a tab at the bottom of the screen, it will have different tabbed options, one of them is NETWORK. You go into that one and open the flash video when it loads the link to the video will appear there all you have to do is copy it either to VLC or totem both of them play streams.

I'm a huge VLC fan, but I gotta give it to TOTEm in this one it loads the videos a la flash if you leave it paused it will download the video VLC will not.