[mdlug] Youtube video saving progress

Raymond McLaughlin driveray at ameritech.net
Sat Oct 18 03:38:24 EDT 2008


Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> 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

a given

> 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'm looking for

  I drag (move) it to
> another location and rename it

in

> 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?





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