On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally. > The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a web > site. I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, from the Windows > partition I have on my hard disk. > > I installed RealPlayer also on Debian, but it does not seem to work. > > I'd be glad if anybody suggests a particular tool that's known to really work.
What has generally worked for me is to watch (or at least buffer) the streaming video in Firefox/Iceweasel, and find the appropriate cache entry (~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>/Cache). "ls -ltr" typically makes it easy to pick out, since it will be recent and large. Then I just copy the file from the cache to a more stable location, changing the file name from <random-looking hex> to my_video.flv. If the file's too big, it'll get booted from the cache, but sometimes it shows up in /tmp (this seems unreliable). Increasing the iceweasel cache limit generally makes this a non-issue, though. This works well with YouTube and Weebl's Stuff, if you need any data points. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
