[mdlug] Youtube video saving progress

[Peter Bart]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 16:30 -0400, 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...
> 

	I don't know what type of handheld you have. A program was written for
the Nokia n800/810 that does what you want. It's called mYTube
<http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mytube/>. The homepage for
the project is <http://mytube.garage.maemo.org/>. This might give you
some pointers as to what you're looking for.

Good Luck,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net