[mdlug] Youtube video saving progress

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Huh?
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing, but I have been 
pulling YouTube videos out of my browser cache for a long time.
I use Firefox 3.0?, and use konqueror to browse my Cache directory. I 
have FF set to clear cache on exit, so there's not much there. When 
using konqueror to examine the firefox cache I will ususlly select the 
details view mode and sort by size, because videos tend to be the 
largest files. Since the files in my FF cache have no extension 
konqueror asks me what program I want to open each file with when I 
click on it. I then select Multimedia-->Video Player-->MPlayer, which 
has the codecs for .swf files. Once I find the file I drag (move) it to 
another location and rename it konqueror. I have encountered some videos 
that seem to be noncaching, so this doesn't work. But I don't think it 
was on YouTube.

Have you gotten this far, or are you talking about something else?

Drew wrote:
> 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...
> 
> ----
> 
> - Drew.