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I'm sorry to be bringing so much stuff up on this forum that is |
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actually off topic. No one has complained but if anyone knows where |
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this question should be sent... please let me know. |
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I'm trying to work out the sequence of events when playing videos from |
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the internet. There are many freebies out there to practice on and |
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some even worth keeping. Lots of tutorial type stuff. |
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In the current case when I click a link to play a specific video I'm |
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seeing a file downloaded into firefox cache that appears to persist for |
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apparently whatever time user has set for cache stuff to linger. |
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They pile up in there as more links are clicked. |
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When I click a link a video appears in the browser window being played |
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by mplayer and is in qt format. A file name consisting of numbers and |
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uppercase letters appears in the cache. That file can be renamed with |
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a *.mov (quicktime) extension and will play in mplayer or quicktime |
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there after. |
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However something strange happens when the file size is slightly above |
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25mb. In that case the name that appeared in the cache when |
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downloading started, suddenly and instantly disappears when the |
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download finishes. The embedded browser player can still play it as |
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much as desired but the on disk file has totally disappeared or been |
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moved somewhere else. The cache shows zero files, yet the embedded |
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player seems unaffected. |
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It appears to occur consistently just slightly above 25mb as reported |
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by reiserfs and closely confirmed by information on the website that |
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tells the file size. |
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The online material itself does not appear to be protected or whatever since |
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they are offered for free right on the internet for anyone. No login |
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or the like required. |
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I'm pretty sure the file is not being held in memory at that size and |
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in fact one would expect the smaller ones to also be if that were the |
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case. |
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I would like to understand what is happening but don't really have a |
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good idea how to track it down. Or even where to take such a question |
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or search for information that might help. |
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In the future I'd like to offer some of my own videos to my far flung |
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family across the internet and would like to have a pretty good grasp |
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on how it all works on both ends. Since I will be expected to debug |
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or otherwise make sure things work smoothly. |
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