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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:33:11
Message-Id: 200706270027.25841.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos by Mick
1 On Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007, Mick wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > I've been trying to download different flash embedded videos like:
5 >
6 > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4191382246884244677
7 >
8 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0Gws-BVM
9 >
10 > etc.
11 >
12 > I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downloader (which didn't
13 > work) and Video Manager with Opera. It seems that the downloaded video is
14 > very jumpy (drops huge number of frames) when played back using xine/gxine.
15 > So I thought of using wget to achieve the same effect but without all these
16 > helpful GUIs, but cannot see what I should be downloading when I look at
17 > the HTML source of the YouTube web page.
18 >
19 > What would you advise on this?
20
21 open site. Wait until flash starts to load
22 ls -lhtr /tmp
23 the last file, starting with FLASH is the one.
24 Wait for it to be fully loaded, copy it somewhere.
25
26 Easy. No plugin needed - and honestly I am surprised that a lot of plugins
27 can't do that right.
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