[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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