[mdlug] Youtube video saving progress

[Carl T. Miller]

Yeah, I wasn't sure what the goal was.  If you just want
to grab videos from YouTube, there is a plugin for FireFox
named DownloadHelper.  It adds a button to your toolbar that
animates when there is video content on a page.  Click the
button and select which file you want to save.

Drew, you mentioned a handheld that can't play videos.  Where
does that come into the picture?

c


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 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.
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