[mdlug] Youtube video saving progress

[Drew]

I've found a simple fix that seems to be working. Someone on some 
forum that came up during my Google
search advised looking in /tmp, and sure enough there's a file called 
Flash????? where ????? is some
seemingly random string. It maxes out at about 20 meg in size for 10 
minutes of video (which I think is a
limit imposed by Youtube, as movies are always cut into chunks of 
this size); and there seems to be at
all times exactly one such file for every video being displayed by a 
loaded web page. (It disappears when
I kill the tab.)

So to copy a video, I view it, wait for the loading bar to go all the 
way to the right, then do a

sudo cp -v `ls -d /tmp/Flash*` /movie/path/videoname_and_partnumber.flv


I expect however that I will still have problems doing this on the 
handheld, which was not designed to
play videos. Unless I can find or come up with some software that 
will run the Javascript and load the
file anyway and maybe just pretend to play the movie...

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- Drew.