Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos

[Mick]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 22:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Mick schrieb:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been trying to download different flash embedded videos like:
> >
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4191382246884244677
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0Gws-BVM
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downloader (which didn't
> > work) and Video Manager  with Opera.  It seems that the downloaded video
> > is very jumpy (drops huge number of frames) when played back using
> > xine/gxine. So I thought of using wget to achieve the same effect but
> > without all these helpful GUIs, but cannot see what I should be
> > downloading when I look at the HTML source of the YouTube web page.
> >
> > What would you advise on this?
>
> As Hans-Werner already mentioned, most embedded (flash)-videos are
> stored temporarily on disk in /tmp or in the browser's cache at least
> here with firefox. So just wait until it is loaded and don't close the
> browser window then copy it to where you want. Btw. YouTube and
> GoogleVideo store them to /tmp.
>
> They play well with mplayer, xine, vlc which i use, others will also work.

Thank you All,

Good tip, should have thought of looking into /tmp, or the browser cache.  I 
did some comparative playbacks and xine/gxine drop frames like mad, while 
mplayer manages a pretty respectable output.  Therefore the problem seems to 
be not on the download but the playback.  Hmm, why would that be?

BTW, xine-check comes back good across the piece:
===================================================
$ xine-check
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.20-gentoo-r8)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4 exists.
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
[ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
[ good ] I even found some skins.
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc
[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/hdc
[ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive
[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance)
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays
[ good ] Xv ports:  RGBA RGBT RGB2 YUY2 UYVY YV12 I420
===================================================

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Regards,
Mick